Chapter 22 is actually mentally retarded
Perhaps Chen Ang had been watching this text for a long time, attracting the attention of the goblin guards in scarlet and gold uniforms at the door, these goblins looked a bit like the common columbs and goblins in the Western fantasy world, with pale green skin and short stature, as well as a greedy nature for wealth, all of which made people think of this fantasy race.
But the goblins of the Harry Potter world are a different kind of creature, they are not even intelligent beings, but a kind of magical creatures.
The rampant fight with the mice of the Muggle world often appears in the back garden of wizarding families, the image of a bearded dwarf, but a low-IQ annoying creature, the two twins of the Weasley family often use goblins for experiments, in Chen Ang's opinion, there is a trace of the demeanor of my generation.
Chen Ang brushed off the spell at the door of Gringotts and walked into the silver gate, inside was a tall marble hall, in which about a hundred or so goblins sat on high stools behind a long row of counters, arranged like a seventeenth-century bank, those goblins did not lift their heads when they saw Chen Aang enter, and focused on their work, some of them checked the weight and fineness of the gold galleons with their scales, some checked the gems with eyepieces, and some kept their books.
The value of the gold galleon is very high, a gold galleon is about five pounds, about fifty yuan, and the gold galleon is not pure gold, even in 1990, five pounds can be exchanged for less than two grams of gold, if the gold galleon is pure gold there will be an absurd result, the value of the gold galleon is higher than its currency value, even if the financial system of the goblins is rough and backward, they will not be stupid like this.
For Chen Ang, although the pound is as much as paper, Gringotts Bank also has a large exchange review restriction regulations, so Chen Ang only exchanged a total of 2,000 gold galleons, which is enough money to spend.
The price of the magic world is not high, in the Blotted bookstore, Chen Ang picked up some textbooks and books, and picked up some old books at a low price and only cost a few hundred gold Galleons, Chen Ang flipped through it slightly, and found that as he expected, in the books of wizards, even the spells and magic books about the core of the magic system, the real magic-related knowledge is extremely incomplete and remote.
Not to mention that the kind of system that Chen Ang learned is complete, with a complete set of logical systems and rational thinking arcane spell systems, that is, after the fall of the ancient arcane civilization, the rearranged mage spell system is also countless times better than these spell books full of chaos, vagueness, and fragmentation, most of the magic books in this world are really just spell books.
They only teach how to wield a wand and cast a spell.
There are detailed explanations of the wand-holding gestures and the pronunciation of the spells, but there is little explanation of the essence underneath, and some are only vague, strange descriptions that look like the inarticulate babbling of a neurotic, confused old witch, which is closer to the image of most wizards that Chen Ang has seen.
It's hard to figure out whether these seemingly clear spell books, but in fact the internal logic is chaotic, have educated wizards in the wizarding world like this, or whether these wizards can only write this kind of magic book.
In those extremely rare alchemy texts and potions books written by Dumbledore and Nicol Lemay, Chen Ang did find some knowledge about the nature of magic, but these things were not the cognition of the whole world, the universe, the plane, the rules of energy, the analysis of the laws of the world, and the rational language full of mathematical formulas.
Rather, it is a set of things operated by empiricist techniques and mystical philosophy, a set of things that make extensive use of symbols and visions, described in sensual and vague language, laws derived from personal experience, which seem to be a useful thing, but in fact are the hybrid product of the rules and philosophies of medieval alchemy and symbolism.
It cannot be said that they do not have subtle and in-depth research, but they are full of idealistic sensibility, personal feelings, and not scientific, rational, based on a whole set of methodical rules.
Chen Ang commented: "The research of wizards in the wizarding world is a hybrid of the idealistic philosophy of Western mysticism and the technological progress of Eastern empiricism. ”
"They don't learn math!" Chen Ang covered the magic book and sighed, "Then you can still study a bird?" ”
"Is it any wonder that Dumbledore received the Merlin Medal for discovering twelve new applications for dragon's blood? Wizards in the wizarding world are a group of people who rely on experience and intuition, blind cats and rats to master the application of their magic instincts, they have no science, not even reason, most wizards can't even do four calculations. ”
"They're not going to study either."
"Their 'learning' is to wave their wands according to the cat and the tiger, imitate the pronunciation of the mantra's mouth, and then become proficient in practice again and again, their potion is a set of potion formulas summed up by luck and experience according to the vague medicinal properties, there are seven points like ancient Chinese medicine, but even ancient medicine is not as good as that, from the beginning of Su Wen, Chinese medicine has a dialectic, and they, not even the dialectic of yin and yang, but more like Wu Yuechu's witch doctor."
"Essentially, that group of wizards is no different from chimpanzees who can learn to use tools, the only difference is that chimpanzees use their natural hands and constantly try to summarize the experience of using tools, while wizards rely on their innate magic and constantly try to use magic experience, and finally summarize it into the current magic system."
"They have the skills but they cannot, just like a craftsman, who can occasionally invent something new because of his experience, even extremely ingenious, but they don't know how to do it. The laws of nature that work behind the scenes. ”
However, instead of solving Chen Ang's doubts, there are many unverified conjectures, and there are certain accidental factors in personal character and behavior, but if the sample is expanded to ethnic groups, even if there will be blind inertia due to ethnic cultural factors, it will eventually produce inevitability.
It's like wizards in the wizarding world and Muggles in the normal world, two groups that are essentially close at hand, and there is no objective obstacle to the exchange of information, to become two groups that are almost completely cut off from each other in reality - this is simply impossible and unscientific!
Theoretically, any wizard who wants to know about Muggles can easily obtain a lot of Muggle information and get a great benefit from it, and when they know that they can bring them a lot of gold Galleons with a single magic, they can control the big Muggle corporations, and the Aurors, who are only a few hundred people, have no time to stop them.
The separation of such an extraordinary world from the mortal world is completely incredible.
If this is just an individual, there are many fortuitous factors that constrain them from participating in the interests of the Muggle world, but to expand this sample to a group of thousands of people - there is no such thing as an accident, and it is inevitable that such a person will try to come into contact with Muggles.
And the wizards who are deeply involved in the Muggle world will have a great impact on the wizarding world, so the wizarding world should never be like this today, at least the goblins of Gringotts will improve their financial system with great enthusiasm.
But no!
So Chen Ang had a reasonable conjecture: "Perhaps, wizards are simply unable to understand rational and objective science, just like dyslexia, wizards are a group of people who collectively suffer from rational comprehension disorder, they are born with magic and can use magic, does this also deprive them of the ability to understand science?" ”
"It's magical!"
"It's going to be tested experimentally, to see if the wizard can't understand the science and its spirit. Are they unable to learn mathematics, unable to understand the whole set of internal logic of science – do they have comprehension barriers? ”
"If yes!" Chen Ang smiled: "Then everything can be explained clearly." The wizards' bloodline, or magical powers, deprived them of some of their ability to comprehend, and distorted their understanding of the Muggles whose science had permeated every aspect of their lives. Their innate magic powers give them magical powers, but they also make them intellectually handicapped......"
"So the two groups of wizards and Muggles are so completely separated...... They live in isolation to protect themselves. ”
"That's okay...... It's magical, in Faeron, some warlock families will inherit some personality, mental illness and personal traits, a group of warlocks who have inherited comprehension disorders and abnormal intelligence make up the wizarding world of the wizarding world, which is completely understandable from the perspective of arcane. ”