Chapter 55: Cognitive Warfare

"Han Feizi Yang Quan": "The name is judged by positioning, and the distinction is based on debate." "To make people have diametrically opposed perceptions of the same thing, you just need to change the parts of speech.

Science. Before the 18th century, Western science was still a natural philosophy. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Xu Guangqi was studying Western scholarship with the Catholic Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, he found that it was similar to the "knowledge of things" in the pre-Qin classic "The Book of Rites and Universities", so he used "knowledge of things" to translate "natural philosophy".

In China's long history, the economy, culture, science and technology are in the leading position in the world, and in the Qing Dynasty, the saying of "Western learning in the source" is still prevalent, and the Western knowledge that comes in will be corroborated by the scriptures, so that Science will be absorbed and digested by Gewu Zhizhizhi, which is not the result they want for the Westernists who blindly worship the West. In order to break the deep-rooted feudal mentality, it is necessary to establish a completely new education system in order to fully accept the transformation of Western thought. From the 31st year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1905), the abolition of the imperial examination system, to the overthrow of the feudal dynasty in 1912, Cai Yuanpei, who served as the chief of education of the Republic of China government, reformed the education system and ordered the whole country to abolish the "Gezhike" in the school institutions and curriculum settings, and replace it with "science". "Western science" has replaced the "Four Books and Five Classics" and has become a new value of the Chinese people.

From the technological revolution initiated by Britain in the 60s of the 18th century to the 19th and 20th centuries, Western scientists sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and Western science made a qualitative leap forward, and separated from natural philosophy, heroically created the times, and finally established the dominance of the bourgeoisie over the world. "Theology," which was once not subject to human will, was replaced by "objective laws," and people began to use science to describe everything in the universe. In the case of "science", "science" replaced "theology" as the new faith.

In 1946 the computer ENIAC was born, and in 1969 Arpanet appeared. With the spread of the Internet, larger groups of people were woven together, and under the temptation of greater dominance, science returned to natural philosophy and launched a comprehensive study of the human mind. In different words, the "reason" of science has replaced the "mind control" of religion and has become the new code of conduct for people.

In 1982, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were proposed, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were born in 1989, and with the application of new activation functions, in 2006, "neural networks" were renamed "deep learning" and began to expand their territory in the digital world. In 2012, AlexNet, which used the CNN model, defeated the vector machine and completed the journey of unifying the digital world, the "neural network" took on the name of "artificial intelligence" and sounded the clarion call to challenge human beings...... Since then, artificial intelligence has slaughtered all directions like an invincible god of war. Artificial intelligence seems to have combined the wisdom of all human beings and has become the all-knowing god that everyone believes in.

Whether it's neural networks, deep learning, or artificial intelligence, they don't and don't need to understand what they're doing, they just need to execute the program code written by the designer, process the data using statistical methods of statistics, find the event with the greatest probability with the help of probability theory, approach the real model through calculus derivation, and make the calculation concise under linear algebra processing...... And continuous deep learning. When the designer tunes the parameters of the black box, any result of AI deep learning can be easily tampered with. In the same word, "artificial intelligence" replaces "religion" and achieves spiritual domination over people.

The more people believe that SuperBrain is omnipotent, the more ubiquitous Superbrain becomes. Although Zhao Lei controls the public opinion platform, the social manipulation of public opinion will inevitably attract the attention of the regulatory authorities and will also attract the noise of the crowd. The emergence of the superbrain has made it possible to impose one-to-one subtle micro-manipulation on people.

Zhao Lei looked at the superbrain terminal that appeared in front of her and thought for a long time, and finally opened the back door, only to see that the endless data formed an endless forest like stars, which was the vast number of beings labeled by categories, growing firmly on a big tree like leaves, and being confined to different sieges.

Touching the data in the Chinese siege, Zhao Lei clicked on the data beam that gathered traditional culture, and on the parameter adjustment interface of the superbrain system, the mythical characters were demonized +1 and the characters were demonized +1...... In the big database, the relevant descriptive text, graphics and other data are reorganized with the change of weight value......

A cognitive war began quietly, and what Zhao Lei wanted to attack was the inheritance and memory of traditional Chinese culture.