bacchusnovels Chapter 505 - 348: Don’t Make Too Much Noise (2)
Chapter 505 - 348: Don’t Make Too Much Noise (2)
Although the level of human civilization now may not seem advanced in those science fiction novels about cosmic voyages,
saying it’s primitive is definitely impossible. One must understand that this civilization is the crystallization of innumerable high-intelligence beings developed over nearly ten thousand years,
encompassing economics, political science, sociology, history, mathematics, engineering, medicine, agronomy, statistics, logic, systems science, physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and space science, among others...
A human with normal brain capacity and information processing speed would probably take tens of billions of years, or even hundreds of billions, to learn all of human civilization’s knowledge.
Even if what Wang Ye talked about is just the relatively recent and minor field of combat sports,
it’s not something an ordinary person with a mere hundred-year lifespan could fully understand over a lifetime.
One must know that science is like a tower built upwards continuously, and without reaching the top, one cannot keep adding bricks on top,
which means Wang Ye must have mastered all knowledge of this field to possibly create "knowledge far beyond the current level."
The ordinary human brain contains over eighty-five billion neurons, with one-third concentrated in the cerebral cortex, forming a complex neural network responsible for advanced thinking activities.
In the past, scientists often marveled at the vastness of the brain’s neural network,
believing humans now only utilize a tiny portion of it, with a large amount of space yet to be developed.
However, recent studies have shown that the human brain does have a storage limit.
In a perspective paper published in "Neuron," researchers from the California Institute of Technology calculated that,
even if humans learn continuously from birth until death, the total accumulated knowledge may only amount to a mere 4GB of bytes.
And even the most basic smartphones today have storage spaces exceeding 128GB.
This conclusion was reached because researchers calculated the information processing speed of the human brain through special means, which is between 5 bits to 50 bits per second, while each English character contains about 1 bit of information. A typist working processes information at a speed of 10 bits per second, and even higher data rate verbal expressions, calculated at 160 individual words per minute, or about 800 English characters, are only about 13 bits per second.
Even a professional "StarCraft" player, hitting the keyboard 1000 times per minute during a tense moment, has an information processing rate of only 16.7 bits per second.
At a rate of 10 bits per second, even if a person learns continuously 24 hours a day without eating, drinking, or sleeping, and doesn’t forget anything, living to 100 years old, the stored knowledge would only be about 4GB, less than the capacity of a common USB drive.
And this is the calculated result under ideal circumstances,
in reality, one must consider brain function degradation and memory forgetting,
and as the brain’s memorized knowledge increases, previously memorized knowledge will gradually fade.
Many may feel they remember a lot, far more than 4GB, but when recalling specific scenes or details, most only see a blur, much like looking at a pixelated image. Calculated at a pixel 8 bits, this kind of precision memory would occupy only a few hundred bits on a hard drive.
Thus, learning is exceedingly difficult. Even mastering the smallest discipline can be as hard as climbing the sky.
Of course, defining the limits of the human brain solely by information processing rate is somewhat crude; the brain’s functions are so complex that perhaps humans will not even scratch the surface of the brain’s potential in the next few thousand years.
For example, the rate at which humans receive information is over a billion times higher than the processing rate, since a single cone cell in the visual system can transmit information at 270 bits per second, and just one eye has about 6 million cone cells,
meaning the information reception rate of the binocular visual system is nearly 3.2GB per second,
not even counting the information reception pathways of smell, hearing, touch, and taste.
This received information undergoes various layers of filtering by the brain’s structures,
before a sliver of it gets converted to memory in consciousness.
If accounting for the process of brain filtering this information,
the brain is undoubtedly a supercomputer capable of crushing high-frequency computation.
Unfortunately, the human consciousness cannot handle that much information, so most people memorizing English words all day may only memorize a hundred, about 500 bits.
Ning Junyi was unaware.
Wang Ye’s brain has undergone system evolution, with an information processing rate over a hundred times that of a normal person. Furthermore, he has systemic assistance and often doesn’t need his brain to process information to learn a skill directly.
Even without system-aided learning, the knowledge he can learn in one day is over a hundred times that of a normal person, and his concentration and energy are at an Extraordinary Level, so while a normal person can study at most twelve hours a day, Wang Ye can study for twenty-four hours straight without fatigue.
For instance, a high school student striving for a year near the college entrance exams might not see as obvious results as Wang Ye casually flipping through books for a day.
At this moment, Ning Junyi across still couldn’t believe Wang Ye’s words, but he had to acknowledge that Wang Ye indeed possessed things not found in modern technology.
In the end, he could only attribute these inexplicable things to Wang Ye having some ancient inheritance, like those powers passed down in fantasy novels...
Seeing this, Wang Ye couldn’t be bothered to explain further. After all, understanding it this way wasn’t entirely wrong since his system was originally some kind of mysterious auxiliary tool, perhaps akin to a divine inheritance?
After communicating,
Ning Junyi took Wang Ye away from the garage where the tank was parked,
arranging a dormitory for Wang Ye.
The dormitory conditions weren’t great,
and could be called somewhat shabby.
Better than the soldiers’ collective dormitory, it was a single room,
with a harder bed than in a hotel, and all the furnishings were the most basic kind.
Fortunately, Wang Ye didn’t need to sleep, and the dormitory was simply a place to cultivate alone for him.
After tidying up the dormitory, night fell to ten o’clock,
Wang Ye, before Ning Junyi left, asked deliberately,
"I’ll be going out to train tonight, might make quite a bit of noise, is that alright?"
Ning Junyi: "No problem, it’s all wilderness around here, no one within a hundred kilometers. We often do live-fire drills nearby, so as long as you keep a bit of distance, you can make whatever noise you want."
Having witnessed the two skills Wang Ye demonstrated earlier, Ning Junyi was utterly convinced by Wang Ye, and his attitude became courteous. And no matter how loud Wang Ye’s "quite a bit of noise" was, it couldn’t surpass the sound of live-fire drills. As long as it didn’t disturb the soldiers’ rest, there was no issue. As for those on guard duty or patrols, a prior notice was enough.
"Thank you." After Wang Ye expressed his gratitude, Ning Junyi went back to rest.
Wang Ye then sat alone on the military green bed and began training in the Creation Skill.
He continued until midnight, then rose, packed his bag, and prepared to go out training.
During this time, due to being in densely populated areas domestically, he never found a way to test and train his running speed.
The fastest he had ever reached so far was tested a month ago in Utah, achieving 0.8 Mach.
And now, based on his estimation, he already possessed the ability to break the sound barrier, which is 1 Mach, but he couldn’t find an opportunity to test it.
Now with the chance, he naturally planned to give it a try.