Zhang Yuan found that the young partners around him, although they promised on their lips, they actually didn't listen to them very much.

Without going through that era, it is impossible to have that kind of empathetic emotion, and everything becomes natural. Perhaps, this in itself is the limitation of a person who has too little experience. This limitation will not be compensated for by an increase in IQ.

"Come on, the future is still the world of you young people!" Professor Xue found that he was happy, and said a little too much, so he hurriedly waved his hand.

Walking out of the door of the laboratory, an old friend was already waiting, this was the first old man Zhang Yuan met in the new civilization, Mr. John.

In order to ensure the consistency of intelligence and the adaptability of memory, the "transcendent" usually uses a body cloned from the original cells, and the genes may be fine-tuned, but not too much.

Therefore, in the experiment just now, Zhang Yuan easily recognized this guy in the crowd.

"John?!"

"Lao Zhang, it's me! Have a drink? ”

"Let's go! There's a nice restaurant over there, and I'm in for a treat. ”

When the double happiness came, seeing his old friend, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but smile, and his mood was even more wonderful.

The two walked into a roadside restaurant, ordered something to eat, and then ordered a small glass of red wine.

They are scientific researchers who habitually don't like to let alcohol destroy their brains, but when they see their old people today, they are happy, and they can't help but make an exception, as long as they don't get drunk, there is no big problem.

John was the first to speak: "Congratulations, a genius is a genius, no matter what world you are in, you are a genius...... You're making results again, a long, long time ago, it seems. It's like plucking an apple from a tree. ”

"There are more geniuses now than before, and with the huge improvement in learning ability, there is a lot more content to explore!" Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "If you don't add more oil, you will be left far behind by others." ”

“…… But if it weren't for the intelligence improvement and human-computer interaction ability brought by the auxiliary brain, I think it would take ten or even twenty times more time to complete this work. ”

In this era, with the auxiliary brain and some human body chip technology, whether it is mathematical modeling or typing code, I don't know how much it is simplified than before.

On the other hand, the rise of memory has broken down a lot of barriers between disciplines. In the past, geniuses studied hard all their lives and may only be proficient in a small piece, but now ordinary people can quickly learn more knowledge and be proficient in several, and it has become possible to combine different disciplines.

John nodded in agreement, "The series of changes brought about by super memory is indeed an epoch-making high-tech...... We eventually crossed that threshold. It's hard to imagine what our society would be like now if we didn't cross this threshold. It may also be like some virtual worlds, lifeless. ”

"Two or three hundred years ago, wasn't that the case...... A dangerous era, fortunately, we have already crossed. ”

The fall of a civilization is sometimes just the work of that generation.

Hearing this history, Zhang Yuan couldn't help but laugh dumbly, John is still that John, he remembers that when he was in the Earth Era, this guy has been worried about the future of the earth civilization, and as a result, the earth civilization has declined.

Now I am worried about the seemingly solved problem of "not crossing the threshold".

"It was a dangerous time, it was dangerous. I've read papers on assistive brains, but I don't understand ......."

Zhang Yuan said: "Although the threshold for intelligence is high, it is not unimaginably high. I think that as long as we learn from enough samples of intelligent life and crack the memory code, there are still not too many problems. It's just a matter of time. However, our human civilization may not be able to last for hundreds or thousands of years, which may be the limitation of human beings. ”

Human memory has been greatly improved, and even the whole intelligence has been improved a lot, like the "ε-δ" language in advanced mathematics, as long as it is memorized by rote, it is not difficult to understand.

Many people are surprised to find that some seemingly difficult subjects, such as group theory and topology, which have a lot of definitions and concepts, have been simplified by rote.

When rote memorization becomes an instinct, it has really become a trick, and you will find that many subjects are not difficult to memorize.

John said, "The most important thing is that in terms of logical thinking, there is no essential improvement in human beings. Therefore, the improvement brought by the auxiliary brain is still limited. This dangerous period of history still has the potential to come back and crush us. ”

The more abstract the knowledge, the more associative skills are required, and the less improvement it can bring.

Biological scientists still don't know how to improve the seemingly abstract ability of "logical thinking" by modifying the brain.

Moreover, the memory that the human brain can process is still limited, and there is no problem for human beings to be proficient in three or five disciplines, but they cannot be proficient in thirty or fifty disciplines.

The auxiliary brain can only record a part of the memory, not all of it, and the brain itself is also responsible for some memory, and it is too difficult to integrate a large number of memories.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "It's already very good now, it's impossible to reach the sky in one step." Professor Tu, who launched the final charge and picked up the shining pearl, died thirty years ago. I'd love to meet this hero. ”

"It's a pity, but the research and development time of this auxiliary brain technology has exceeded 500 years, and it is not the credit of Professor Tu alone."

Even with some minor flaws, the two are still very satisfied, or simply not satisfied, with the current scientific progress. The worries of civilization are long-term, but they cannot hide short-term optimism. If there is only sorrow and no optimism, people will collapse.

John suddenly asked, "What do you think is the most epoch-making technology, or concept, besides assisting the brain?" ”

Zhang Yuan thought for a while: "The incompleteness of random numbers theorem!" It proves that 'true random numbers' cannot be generated by the algorithm itself...... That is, information itself cannot produce information. This theorem is too strong, and it is a crucial step in the nature of the universe, self-awareness, and even strong artificial intelligence! ”

Computers can indeed generate true random numbers, either with the help of user activity or hardware instability, and there are even specially made "true random number generators" that can output random sequences using the randomness of the thermal motion of molecules. However, without the help of the external environment, the computer still cannot use the algorithm itself to generate true random numbers.

Randomness is inseparable from strong artificial intelligence. Under the guidance of theory, how to make strong artificial intelligence is another major topic.

"The second is the subatomic theory that can break the confinement of quarks."

Quark confinement, simply put, is to pull away the energy of the combined quark, enough to form a new quark in a vacuum, and combine it with the original quark, and the result is still not a separate quark. However, after the introduction of subquarks and subleptons, a small amount of energy can be used to pry the conversion between quarks and produce a huge amount of energy.

Although quark energy still uses the mass-energy equation, it can convert 60% of the mass of matter into energy, which is close to 100% of antimatter!

"If quark energy can be used, it will be possible to produce antimatter in large quantities. It's still a bit difficult to rely on fusion energy alone. Antimatter is basically the strongest weapon of a third-level or even fourth-level civilization. ”

Zhang Yuan shook his head: "No, quarks can get trillion-degree high temperatures, small-scale energy rooms really can't be made, and even the scale of the Bright Galaxy is still too small." If you hollow out a planet, it's good to rely on the volume inside. ”