Chapter 273: The Hardware Basis of the Superbrain System
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Writing an operating system inside your own brain is an extremely crazy idea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, Lin Hong believed that he would definitely succeed, because he currently possessed the basic ability to achieve - strong spiritual power. With this, he can observe and manipulate the brain structure from a microscopic level, making it possible to program the brain.
In fact, the hardware base in the brain is completely off-the-shelf.
On the basis of this hardware, the software of "consciousness" was produced, but it is not known how this software was produced and what its operating mechanism was.
And Lin Hong didn't expect to be able to completely unlock the secrets of the human brain, all he had to do was to program the brain using the ideas of a modern computer operating system.
It may not be able to match the power of the brain's own "operating system", but it is certainly more powerful than that of modern computers. Whether it is computing speed or storage space, it will be much more powerful than current computers, hundreds, even thousands, ten thousand times!
There are a total of 14 billion neurons in the human brain, and as long as Lin Hong finds a way to encode the neurons in them, so that they can represent the two states of 0 and 1, and can change their states in a certain way, he can successfully write a set of operating systems in the brain.
The operating system, in essence, is a rule of signaling. This rule is extremely simple, it only needs two states to be represented, and then it is artificially given a prescribed meaning, which is the essence of a computer operating system.
From this point of view, Lin Hong feels very much like the "Tao Sheng" in ancient Chinese philosophy
lifetime
Second life
Three begets of all things".
As long as the most basic things are realized, more complex things can be realized, which is the law of nature, from simple to complex.
When computers were first invented, they had no idea how complex they are today, and in fact, there was not much innovation in hardware, nothing more than constantly lengthening the length of bytes representing characters, and computer software continued to develop rapidly.
Never before in the history of mankind has a culture that has been able to go from a simple 1+1 arithmetic test in just a few decades to a level so complex that even the best scientists cannot guarantee that they can fully understand it.
From the bottom up, the whole system of computer civilization is amazingly perfect, there has never been a culture with such a strong inclusiveness, it can include the entire human civilization in all fields, it can be said that computer culture is the result of the joint efforts of high-IQ people all over the world, and this trend will continue.
From the beginning of Lin Hong's contact with computers, he had a strong feeling that the emergence of computers would change people's lives. As he became more aware of computers, this became clearer.
The advent of the Internet has once again accelerated the development of computer civilization.
In the past, it was "three people must have my teacher", "three stinkers race Zhuge Liang", but now it is the wisdom of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people gathered together. The effect is not as simple as 1+1 equals 2.
The wisdom of the people, Lin Hong experienced it when he did the SAM project, and now the success of Linux is also the crystallization of the wisdom of the people, to the big picture, the rise of computer civilization, is also one of the examples of "the wisdom of the people".
Lin Hong's idea of implementing an operating system inside his brain was motivated by the desire to accurately record the state of the brain and discover the conditions under which the brain and the ghost field resonate. However, he also knew that this idea, once realized, and if replicated, would also have a great impact on the entire human society.
At the beginning, Phyllis's father, Coslyn Morgan, once asked him that as a man, he should be a little ambitious and leave something in this world.
Lin Hong's answer was: "Change the world with your own technology." ”
Perhaps, he can really do this!
Many people compare the CPU to the heart of a computer, but in reality, this analogy is not accurate. It is true that the CPU is the most important part of the computer, but it is responsible for processing logical operations, which is more accurate, the "brain" of the computer.
The heart of a computer has something else, and that's a clock signal generator. It's the source of the computer's computation. Because the hardware circuits used to represent data in computers are the switching states of the transistors in the digital chip, and in order to change the specific state of these switches, it is necessary to rely on the pulse signals transmitted by the signal generator.
This pulse signal is like the pulse of the computer, and with each beat, the switching state of the transistor will change to a certain extent, so that the entire chip can complete a certain task.
If Lin Hong wants the "superbrain system" in his brain to run successfully, he must first solve this problem, and only by making his heart beat can the whole system work normally.
In a computer, the clock signal generator used by the CPU or other peripherals as a frequency source is a crystal oscillator (quartz crystal oscillator) with a frequency of 14.318MHz. This frequency has been used since the birth of the PC, and later PCs have been using this frequency in order to be compatible with previous PCs, and it has become the industry standard.
But what frequency source should be used as a clock signal generator in the brain?
This first step stumped Lin Hong.
According to his idea, he would use the brain's ready-made hardware base and run the software directly on it.
He thought about it, and for the time being, he could only think of two kinds of signals that could be used as a frequency source.
The first is the frequency of the heartbeat, which is the frequency of the pulse.
This is the power source of the human body, and the beating of the heart allows the blood to constantly circulate in the human body, so as to achieve various metabolism and energy exchange.
It seems reasonable to use it as a source of frequency.
However, Lin Hong vetoed it because there was a fatal influencing factor - frequency.
The speed of the heartbeat is too slow, almost once a second, and if you use it as the hardware frequency of the superbrain system, then this system basically has no meaning to exist.
You know, this frequency is equivalent to the frequency of the CPU, which is how many times per second is the addition calculation.
According to Moore's Law, the performance of a microprocessor doubles every eighteen months.
Since the birth of the PC, its main frequency has been in khz. Today, the CPU frequency of PCs has reached the level of 133MHz.
If Lin Hong chooses heartbeat as the hardware frequency of his superbrain system, then the computing speed of the superbrain system can be described as a snail. It takes one second to do the last addition operation, and at least a few seconds to do the multiplication operation, because in a computer, the multiplication operation is broken down into multiple addition operations.
Not to mention other, more complex graph calculations. The speed of such calculations is simply unbearable.
The second source of frequency that Lin Hong thought of was the brainwaves of the brain.
People have magnetic fields, and when people think, the magnetic field will change, forming a kind of biological current through the magnetic field, and the thing formed is "brain waves". Brainwaves with the late nineteenth century, discovered by the German physiologist Hans Berg.
Brain waves have been widely used in modern medicine.
On an EEG, the brain produces four types of brain waves. That is, δ (1-3Hz), θ (4-7Hz), A (8-13Hz), β (14-30Hz). Of course, there is no unified standard for the demarcation of these four types of waves.
Among them, the higher the frequency, the more active the brain. For example, when you are excited or nervous, β waves are generated. When you feel drowsy, your brain waves become theta waves.
Under normal circumstances, it is generally an A-wave, with an average of about 10 times per second.
The frequency of brain waves is naturally much faster than the heartbeat, almost ten times the difference.
Although this frequency is negligible compared to the current computer, Lin Hong could not find a suitable frequency source for the time being, so he decided to use brain waves to conduct some necessary experiments and tests first.
If you come across a better solution in the future, you can just change it, and even if you completely reinvent it, the theoretical system based on this can be reused.
Of course, brain waves, like the beating frequency of the heart, have the same characteristics, that is, they are very unstable and will change dramatically with the change of the state of the human body. However, Lin Hong is only conducting tests and experiments at present, and has no requirements for stability at all, so he has ignored this parameter for the time being.
This project cannot be completed in a day or two, or a month or two, and there are many problems and difficulties. Lin Hong can only take it step by step, usually when he rests his brain at night, he is immersed in the state of internal vision, and continues to observe the state changes of neurons, synapses and cells inside, hoping to find a switch state suitable for encoding and storing information.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, because it was already May, and there was only a little more than a month before the college entrance examination, and Feng Wan was taking the graduating class again, so she couldn't continue to ask for leave at all, and she had to go back to school.
Early in the morning, Feng Wan rode her bicycle out early.
Lin Hong, on the other hand, took a village bus back to the countryside to Shuanghe Village.
The last time he and his master spent too little time together, they just had to talk about his experience in the past few years.
His master Sun Jingtai understood his parents' feelings, so he asked him to stay at home for a few days first, and then go to live with him for a few days.
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