History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 55
Yang Yi: "There is a question that has puzzled me for a long time, and I want to discuss it with you."

Geng Sihan: "What's the problem?"

Yang Yi: "Have you ever thought that when you are walking alone in an underground parking lot, in the corridor of an office building, in a secluded alley, or standing in an elevator, if someone After entering this place, how do you confirm that the person behind is not threatening to you?"

Geng Sihan: "There seems to be no way to do this, right? Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"

Yang Yi: "Or to put it another way, if you were in the scene just now and your identities were changed, if you were the person behind, how would you make the person in front feel that you are not a threat?"

Geng Sihan: "What...is this a problem? Are you going to study it and then go kidnap people?"

Yang Yi: "No, don't tell you that you haven't encountered this kind of situation? In this kind of situation, you in front of you will feel the so-called 'insecurity' of another person. How can you confirm that person? Is there no threat to you? And you in the back naturally know that you will not pose any threat to the person in front, and you will not make any threatening actions to that person, but how do you let the other party know this? "

Geng Sihan: "Huh? That's interesting. That is to say, according to what you said just now, the people in front can't know whether the people behind are threatening to them, and even in a society with good law and order, there will be such a threat." The case of being attacked in a situation, such inertia and the nature of people's defense against other individuals, it is so natural for such an idea to arise."

Yang Yi: "Yes, it is natural for the people in front to have such thoughts, and the people behind, as a normal person, can easily know that the people in front have such feelings. Then the problem arises, under such circumstances , How can the person in the back let the person in front know that he has no malicious intentions?"

Geng Sihan: "Well... this... let me think about it. What if the person behind slows down and slowly distances himself from the person in front?"

Yang Yi: "This... I don't think it will work... This method will only make the person in front feel that the person in the back is plotting something bad, and is ready to rush up to snatch people at any time. In the same way, if you walk lightly Letting the person in front not hear, I think it is also an act of causing a huge misunderstanding to the person in front.”

Geng Sihan: "In that kind of deep and winding place, if the footsteps of the people behind gradually disappear, it is indeed a very scary scene."

Yang Yi: "Yeah, when I was thinking about this question, I also thought about it. If you yell incoherently from behind, although the person in front will let the person in front know of your existence, you can roughly let the other party know that you have a relationship with him." own distance, but this kind of behavior that feels like a lunatic may make the people in front feel more threatened, right?"

Geng Sihan: "Haha, yes, let me think about it... What if the person behind runs fast and overtakes the person in front? I think this is a very good way, but when the footsteps of the person behind approach the former , and at the moment of surpassing the former, the psychological pressure on the people in front may be the greatest. Because ah, the people in front don't even know that this person who is approaching him quickly is not here to snatch him..."

Yang Yi: "Well... yes... you say, if the person in the back activates the personal communicator at this time, and chats with his friends about something, so that the person in front feels that he is a normal person who is not threatening, At the same time, let the other party know the distance between the two, wouldn't it be better?"

Geng Sihan: "This way... Maybe it will be better... But if the person in front doesn't have complete trust in the latter, no matter what this person says later, it should be useless? I don't know if there is no solution to this matter. Woolen cloth?"

Yang Yi: "Yeah, it seems to say that this matter is really unsolvable, unless the thinking between people is transparent to each other, and everyone can see each other's thoughts at a glance."

Geng Sihan: "I don't know if it's right to say this: Although our species has not designed a device that can see through each other's minds, nor has it evolved related functions, but I feel that this is what humans can go to. One of the big reasons today?"

Yang Yi: "Oh? How do you say this? Although I generally agree with your idea, I haven't thought much about this issue. Would you like to share your opinion?"

Geng Sihan: "Well, although we have been seeing a lot of literary and artistic works about telepathy and telepathy, these imaginations of artists and novelists are understandable, but I think that if human society as a whole becomes like that, it may be true. will degenerate to a certain extent. One of the important factors is that the body structure of human beings, carbon-based mammals, can only adapt to the frequency of sound waves such as language, or the less efficient expression of gestures. Form. Assuming that humans can exchange information more efficiently through brain waves or other forms, then many of the basic functions that we have evolved, such as mouth, ears, and limbs, may develop along other forms. Thinking like this If we go on, maybe people will no longer be the people we know.”

Yang Yi: "The literary and artistic works you mentioned should include the "Three-Body Problem" written by a writer named Liu Cixin. The three-body people in it and the "sophia" they designed, right?"

Geng Sihan: "Yes, there are also people with psychic abilities who can see through thoughts and adjust other people's emotions in the second base similar to Isaac Asimov's "Foundation."

Yang Yi: "And...there are related abilities of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood in Frank Herbert's "Dune" series, right?"

Geng Sihan: "Hmm, it's interesting. What you mean is that, taking the earth's environment in ancient times as an example, from the initial gene chain to the subsequent single-celled organisms, and then to the emergence of more complex structures, all of these are the source of Adaptation to this type of general environment. In this process, there may be many alienation or unique evolution paths, but the general direction and principles are basically unchanged, so it is basically very different in such an environment. It's possible to evolve organisms that don't have eyes, ears, skin, noses, these types of organ structures to sense the environment, right?"

Yang Yi: "Yeah, haha, you summed it up well? Do you know what I remembered?"

Geng Sihan: "What? How do I know?"

Yang Yi: "I think of a poet named Li He in the Tang Dynasty in ancient China. Everyone called him a 'poem ghost'. He wrote a series of poems about horses."

Geng Sihan: "Haha, I know what you want to say."

Yang Yi: "What do I want to say? Tell me about it?"

Geng Sihan: "There are more than 20 horse poems written by Li He. How do you know that you are thinking of that particular poem if I say it? How about we write it down in our hands?"

Yang Yi: "Okay, okay, I'll tear a piece of paper out of my notebook and give it to you, let's write together."

Geng Sihan: "Okay, let's write together."

The two wrote four lines of poems on paper respectively.

The two put the papers on the table, and on the two pieces of paper it was written: "Bole looks forward, with the swirling hairs in his abdomen. I just pluck out the white grass today, when will the green hills suddenly appear."

Both of them laughed loudly: "Hahahahahaha!!!"

Yang Yi: "I didn't expect it, I really wanted to go together. Oh, yes, you know that the phrase 'when will suddenly Qingshan.' later evolved into a ci pai?"

Geng Sihan: "Of course I know, the name of Cipai is called 'Moshanxi', right?"

Yang Yi: "You are amazing! You know everything!"

Geng Sihan: "Are you praising yourself? Hahaha!"

Yang Yi: "Don't you? Are we praising each other that we are the horse that can't find a place to go, and at the same time we are praising each other that we are the Boleha who understands us?"

Geng Sihan: "What do you think? Haha!"

Yang Yi: "But... Speaking of which, have you ever thought about how we can continue to exchange information with each other if we are in a situation where we can't communicate, or it's difficult to communicate?"

Geng Sihan: "Will this happen??? Are you thinking too much?"

Yang Yi: "Just now, when I asked you the question about tandem in the alley, didn't you think that you didn't care at first? Don't you think it's still interesting?"

Geng Sihan: "So...maybe? But we can't think about the melange in "Dune", or those born with psychic powers in "Foundation", and the synaptic amplifier? These just listen to Sounds so fantastical?"

Yang Yi: "If we both regard this matter as an important problem to be solved, how about we split up to find a solution?"

Geng Sihan: "Okay, okay, let's see what kind of method we can find, so that when we can't use words, gestures, or even eye contact, two people can still share with each other to a certain extent. Information. Is that what you mean?"

Yang Yi: "Well, yes yes, don't you find it very interesting?"

Geng Sihan: "Ha... I think it's okay... But who told you that you are my best and best friend? I always think what you say is very reasonable, and I trust you [-]%!"

Yang Yi: "Haha, thank you, Geng Sihan's close friend."

The two went through a lot of information separately, looking for the answer to Yang Yi's question...

When Yang Yi was reviewing related neurological treatment materials, he discovered that a long time ago, people would provide a special psychological intervention method for those patients with drug dependence.This "heart addiction" always plays an important role in accompanying those addicts from wanting to take those drugs to finally taking them and forming a dependence.And these links are divided into three links: stimulus arousal, impulse generation and behavior implementation.

The psychiatrists in those senior withdrawal hospitals use the program implantation technology under deep hypnosis to conduct in-depth treatment on these three links respectively, so that patients no longer feel excitement and desire for these psychotropic drugs, but feel disgust and fear. When I saw it, I turned around and left.In the process, they will be proud and excited about their restraint, achieving a self-reinforcing effect.

However, in many premature treatments and interventions, this kind of therapy has a certain influence on the purity of the patient's metacognition.Yang also discovered that around the 23rd century, a doctor who did not leave his full name renamed this set of techniques modified by "he" or "she" as "program implantation techniques under deep hypnosis".The doctor emphasized that a certain degree of consciousness implantation and intervention is carried out on patients under deep hypnosis, so that it can be more efficient, and negative emotions can also be implanted appropriately according to the patient's condition.In the dozens of clinical records that Yang Yi has seen, the effect of this therapy on patients with psychotropic drug dependence is very obvious, and there is basically no record of affecting metacognition.In addition, Yang Yi also noticed that in a few sporadic records, this kind of deep hypnosis therapy has also played a very good role in a few patients who have been imprisoned for a long time and caused a certain degree of brain cognitive disability. The "wake-up" effect.

According to the records in these documents, Yang Yi transcribed some details of the treatment process:
The general principle of this technique is to bring the individual into a state of deep hypnosis.Patients in this state need to be very relaxed, highly focused, and highly specific to specific situations to implant healthy emotions and thoughts.In traditional hypnosis, there is a link called "anchoring" (also known as "anchoring" or "anchoring"). From a certain point of view, this is also a conditioned reflex.

However, traditional hypnotic theories and techniques do not pay enough attention to "anchor" and do not have a thorough and thorough understanding of conditioned reflexes. They do not have enough theoretical support and awareness to create targeted "anchor".Therefore, this method is still relatively inefficient.The general "suggestion" technique is relatively shallow, such as letting the individual relax or enter a hypnotic state, and then suggesting that "the next time you study, you will feel very happy", and so on.This hint is relatively vague, lacks pertinence, and the clinical effect is not good.

But if it is metacognition, it is different. On the theoretical level, it has a very thorough understanding of the operating mechanism of the patient's emotional conditioning, and then formulates a set of precise and very targeted methods based on this. The crux of the disease.On the basis of combining technologies such as metacognition, the program implantation under deep hypnosis is more efficient.

Based on the above theory, Yang also decided to suggest that Geng Sihan learn a set of techniques that can deeply hypnotize the other party, and then when deeply hypnotizing the other party, implant a "metacognition" into the other party's "metacognition", that is, in the depths of the soul, to implant a "meta-cognition" that only you have. know words.If this word is repeated seven times in a row by the other party in an extremely urgent situation, it can reawaken the lowest level of consciousness of the implanted person after being deeply hypnotized.

Geng Sihan, who is naturally curious about everything in the world, of course would not refuse this opportunity to learn and practice new things, but both of them were thinking, what kind of vocabulary would be more appropriate to implant deep in the brain of their most important close friend? ?

(End of this chapter)