Dreamland Guide

When Aoki first saw the symbols on the ground, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. Something in the depths of his mind was crawling out, like a worm, rustling, and when it couldn't climb out, it would bite his brain.

This is not the first time this situation has occurred. Every time he thinks about things a little deeper, especially about his own past, his head hurts as much as it is now.

He once doubted whether he was infected with the gray brain virus, or if his subconscious was still able to use it freely, he even suspected that a shadow had already occupied his brain.

In the past, when encountering such a situation, he would inevitably stop thinking, stretch his waist lazily, and then light a cigarette. Now, his cigarette is soaked in blisters. Without smoking, his brain cannot secrete more dopamine to suppress nerve pain.

His mind is now like a boiling hot pot, and the symbols on the ground have become delicious ingredients, and they are all crushed and thrown into the pot, mixed with his brain, accompanied by red chili oil and The dots of pepper particles were tumbling up and down together.

He grinned, winked at those things, and said, "I seem to understand a little bit..."

Everyone looked at him and waited for him to speak-if you understand a little bit, then speak it out, speak it out for everyone.

But Aoki couldn't tell. It's not that he is lying, but that he doesn't know how to say it. You really can't explain to a foreigner who has never eaten Chinese food what hot pot is, what are the things that are turned over in there!

The crow moved lightly on his head: "Crack, I told you not to brag! There is a linguist here. It's not right for you to brag about linguistics in front of a linguist! It's like! No one can brag in front of Ruhua that they can make sauced elbows..."

Aoki reached over his head and grabbed the crow's ankle. The crow was taken aback, flapping its wings and shouting: "Hey, don't do this, I'm just kidding, quack, don't throw me!"

Aoki didn't throw it, but grabbed its feet and scratched his head, as if the scalp was itchy and scratching would be more comfortable.

"Wow, it's cool!" The crow immediately scratched his scalp, "You won't have lice anymore?"

Su Huilan said, "Qingmu, what do you understand? Tell me quickly."

Aoki said: "All I see are fragments of information, which can't be put together into something meaningful, so I don't know how to say it, but I do understand a bit."

Mrs. Larry encouraged: "Then describe the fragmented information you see, even if it is only a little bit. The deciphering of the language is like this. When Shang Boliang deciphered the Egyptian sacred script, it was only from a pharaoh. It starts with the name. You just need to give me a hint, maybe we can work together to translate the text completely."

Aoki shook his head and said, "No, madam, it is difficult for me to describe, because what I see cannot be translated into language. What I see is a lot of patterns, and I don't know what that means."

"Patterns? What I see is also a pattern, and what Mrs. drew on the ground is a pattern. Doesn't anyone see it?" Petru said.

Mrs. Larry’s eyes lighted up, and she said, "Mr. Aoki, please tell me what kind of pattern do you see? Oh, you don’t need to describe its specific content, you just need to tell me what it looks like. , Such as shape, color, etc."

Aoki thought for a while and said, "It's three-dimensional, just like a holographic projection, but it's all broken. As for the color, it's messy, I can't say it clearly."

Mrs. Larry looked a little excited, and her breathing became tight. She frowned, her hands clenched into fists, her fingers rubbing constantly. After a while, she said: "I understand, this is a more advanced type of writing, more advanced than I thought!"

"How advanced is it?" Alice asked.

Mrs. Larry said: "Linguistics is actually a branch of informatics. Writing is a way of recording and transmitting information. In philology, the most commonly used method is to divide it into pictograms, ideograms and phonemes according to its origin and function. , But there are also some rare methods that are classified according to the shape of the text. For example, we call the text on the clay fragments found on the island of Crete linear text, and the Chinese characters as square characters. Do you have any I heard a saying that Chinese characters are equivalent to QR codes and English is equivalent to barcodes?"

Alice said: "I've heard it, but this is just a view that is popular on the Chinese Internet. It has no academic significance, right?"

Mrs. Larry said: "Indeed, this is academically meaningless. It is just for self-entertainment by netizens, but it reflects the fact that there is no doubt that the amount of information carried in Chinese characters is much larger than that in English."

Su Huilan suddenly said: "Do you mean Madam? English is actually linear text, that is, one-dimensional, while Chinese characters are two-dimensional. Two-dimensional information modules naturally carry more information than one-dimensional information modules. "

"That's the truth." Mrs. Larry smiled and nodded. "After the unification of linguistics and informatics, we have proposed the dimensional theory of language, but this is very complicated, and it also involves the law of thermodynamics in informatics. Application, but there is a very interesting conclusion-the information exchange between living beings usually adopts the information encoding method that is one dimension lower than the spatial dimension in which it is located."

This sentence is a bit convoluted, and people who listened to it unconsciously repeated it in the mouth: a way of encoding information one dimension lower than the spatial dimension in which it is located...

Looking at everyone, Mrs. Larry seemed puzzled, and explained: "In layman’s terms, humans are three-dimensional creatures. Our language and characters usually use two-dimensional coding, because this coding method can carry the greatest extent within our understanding. The amount of information. If three-dimensional coding is used, the amount of information is greater, but the human brain cannot respond, and learning is more difficult. If a lower dimension, such as one-dimensional, is used, the amount and efficiency of information transmission will be very low. This is the story of knotting in ancient times."

"But Madam, you just said that English is linear and Chinese characters are two-dimensional. Are we Europeans and Americans lower-dimensional creatures compared to Chinese?" Alice said unconvinced.

Mrs. Larry said: "Of course not. I speak English linearly only in relative terms. In fact, both English and Chinese characters ~www.readwn.com~ are all evolved on the basis of standard two-dimensional coding. English abandons pictograms. The phonetic function is retained, which reduces the complexity of information coding, but improves the ease of information transmission. You can think of it as 1.5-dimensional; while Chinese characters combine pictograms, knowing and pictophones to improve the efficiency of information coding. You can think of it as 2.5 dimensions. These information encoding methods are all within our normal understanding. Which one we use depends on which we need. Different eras and social models have different requirements for the speed and efficiency of information dissemination."

Su Huilan said: "I understand, madam, these characters on the ground use more advanced coding methods."

Mrs. Larry nodded and said: "Yes, I should have thought of it when I was at the altar. These words are projected onto the ground through the moonlight in the gaps between the pumice stones. The real message may be the spatial arrangement of the stones in the sky. It's a pity that I can't see it anymore. Fortunately, Mr. Aoki reminded me that I think this is a kind of three-dimensional coded text message."

"Madam, you just said that biological information uses a coding method that is one dimension lower than the spatial dimension in which it is located, and Mr. Aoki can actually see the three-dimensional coding information of these characters, then..."

Alice looked at Aoki with a strange look, and she didn't say the second half of the sentence-isn't he a four-dimensional monster?