This is the first time Zhou You has heard such a concept, so he is a little unfamiliar with it.
But after Huayin's brief explanation, Zhou You gained a basic understanding.
The original concept of the global brain was to regard the entire earth as a super-large intelligent life like humans, relying on the sun to survive.
In this definition, the role played by human beings is precisely the neurons of the earth, which are relatively complex, relatively large, and important cells that have a relatively large impact on the earth.
Other plants and animals on the earth are also organs and tissues with different positions, playing different roles and performing different functions.
Various natural changes on the earth can be understood as various chemical reactions and interactions of body fluids in the human body.
The history of biological changes on the earth, and even the history of human civilization, can be understood as the growth process of this huge creature on the earth from childhood to adulthood, or perhaps from a smaller juvenile to a slightly larger juvenile.
As the neurons of the earth, human beings are apparently independent individuals, but another wonderful reaction, that is, society and culture have become the link connecting different people, transforming seemingly individual human beings at the conceptual level.
It is condensed into a loose but objective whole.
This whole is the global brain of the earth in a conceptual sense.
The global brain is not static, but as human civilization changes, it becomes more and more complex, has more and more functions, and the speed of information interaction is getting faster and faster.
In ancient times when transportation and communication were inconvenient, the global brain existed objectively, but because different blocks were isolated from each other, its presence was very weak and its impact on the earth was also small.
But in the 20th century, especially after entering the 21st century, with the rise of Internet technology and the increasingly developed modern transportation, the interaction between people in different regions around the world has become more and more smooth.
The higher the frequency, the closer the connections between humans who together form the global brain become, and human civilization slowly transforms from countless scattered small groups into a true whole.
With the help of the Internet and new means of transportation, the social cognition and knowledge of humans on earth have been aggregated at the information level and turned into a relatively complete group consciousness.
Some people may think that human group consciousness is only a conceptual thing, but you can give an example.
Suppose that humans discover that an asteroid that is powerful enough to destroy the earth's ecology is heading straight towards the earth from outside the solar system. It will accurately enter the capture range of the earth's gravity in a few years, and then it will surely hit the earth.
In order for humans to survive and maintain the earth's ecology, there are only two options: destroy the asteroid in advance, or simply change the earth's orbit.
After this news is announced, all humans on the planet will have many complex emotions in their hearts. But no matter how complex the emotions are, one of them must be fear.
If most individuals in all human beings are afraid of one thing, then the existence of this global brain can be proved. This fear is no longer a personal matter, but a collective instinctive emotion.
In addition, the group consciousness composed of the cognition of all mankind does have a very obvious regulating function for the entire civilization and the earth's ecology.
Let's take the example of a meteorite impacting the earth. Suppose that scientists, after accurate calculations, determine that it is possible to destroy the asteroid by gathering the military forces, nuclear reaction devices and materials of all countries on the earth.
Then the whole world will take action, work towards the same goal, make various industrial path adjustments, go all out to explode productivity, and changes will quickly sweep across the world.
Some industries will disappear, some industries will be built, the ecological environment of some areas will be changed, and the survival and life of animals will also be affected.
Of course, there will inevitably be some people who go crazy because of the fear of the end of the world and become the ones holding us back, which will then cause some chaos or even war.
But whether it is a good change or a bad change, it is essentially the regulatory mechanism of the global brain that is the human collective wisdom at work.
If humans ultimately succeed in destroying the asteroid and preserving the existing ecology on Earth, it can be concluded that this adjustment of the global brain has achieved its intended purpose.
However, in the previous concept, the global brain was based on human knowledge and global informatization, and was a human matter.
The global brain of mice is another concept.
It is currently known that the Rat King can send information to the outside world through electromagnetic waves, and the National Academy of Sciences is also making progress.
Although it has not yet been clearly concluded that it is brain electromagnetic waves, there are more scientific researchers there and they have more information. By analyzing a large amount of information, they have initially figured out some of the ways in the social structure of rats.
First, the Academy of Sciences told Huayin's outgoing team that there was clear evidence that rats in neighboring countries in South Asia had invented writing.
It is something similar to tadpole writing. At present, it seems to only have very basic phrases, a bit like hieroglyphics.
Writing spread quickly among rats.
The writing of rats first appeared in the southernmost areas of neighboring countries, but now, just a few days later, the northernmost areas of neighboring countries, and even rats in the southern provinces of the country, have begun to use the same set of writings.
Scientists have calculated that the speed of diffusion of words by mice is much faster than the running speed of mice.
Even if a mouse kept running from the southernmost part of a neighboring country, it would not be able to reach its own country within a few days.
In addition, those rat kings who mastered rat writing seemed to have completely skipped the learning process, and suddenly became proficient in it and could use it.
Therefore, scientists believe that rats have incredible information integration and knowledge transmission capabilities. They may have skipped the learning process and directly shared memories through something similar to memory initiation.
And, mice sharing memories don't need to be close together.
Two mice that are high enough can be regarded as the same thing as human communication base stations.
When the two base stations approach each other to a certain distance and sense each other's presence, they will package and share their memories and knowledge with each other just like humans used the mobile Internet to transmit file packages in the past.
Later, after moving, the two rat kings will each look for other rat kings of the same level, once again completing the long-distance knowledge transmission.
This is simply a cheat, completely unreasonable, but it seems to be the reality, and only this kind of speculation can reasonably explain the popularity of mouse writing.
Similarly, the superior mouse's absolute control over the inferior mouse, the absolute unity of the mice, and the ridiculously high response speed of group action coordination are all based on the "superpower" of the superior mouse king.
Based on the basic ability possessed by rats, the reality that it took humans tens of thousands of years to develop from eating hair and drinking blood to the current technological level is like a cruel joke.
After talking about these known things, Huayin began to talk about her own speculations.
She said in a heavy tone: "According to the current rate of evolution of rats and the expansion of knowledge, it won't be long before the rats will run into the industrial age, or even the information age. If the upper limit of the Rat King's abilities can continue to increase,
Then this method of transmitting information through continuous relays will gradually become outdated. There will be one or several supreme rat kings whose influence can spread across continents and even the world."
"These supreme rat kings will become the administrative center, knowledge center and power center of rat society. Rats around the world will truly connect their consciousness around these supreme rat kings. The way rats connect individuals is different from human society.
It has infinitely powerful efficiency and accuracy. There is no struggle for power between rats, and there is also a natural unity brought about by the characteristics of the species. The upper rat king has natural absolute dominance over the lower rats, and the rats will
Under complete military rule, we will quickly complete technological updates and iterations until we catch up with or even surpass us."
"Currently, due to the limited distance that mice can transmit information, we can only say that the global brain of mice is still in its infancy and is a regionalized global brain. But if we can't find any way to fundamentally change the situation,
Eventually, the minds of rats around the world will be linked together and become the new Gaia consciousness that rules the earth. There is really not much time left for us humans."
After Zhou You listened, he did not rush to express his position, but also thought carefully.
He had to admit that although Huayin's judgment seemed a bit too pessimistic, based on the situation he saw today, this pessimistic future was likely to become a reality.
As tough as he is, he can't help but feel despair.
In the end, Zhou You could only sigh and shook his head with a wry smile, "Forget it, it's useless for us to worry here now. We can only take one step at a time and try to see how far we, or rather humans, can persist. After all.
... As a species on the earth, humans can be regarded as the most successful creatures so far. Even if we really die, our time of ruling the earth may not be as long as that of the dinosaurs, but at least during the time we rule the earth,
The changes we have brought to this planet are unprecedented."
"Since the previous dinosaurs and insects will retire, humans, as animals that were also born in the earth's evolutionary history, are naturally qualified to retire. Maybe the consciousness of the earth is tired of humans who are too big and thinks that relying on humans
With the previous size, it was impossible to rush out and become a cosmic civilization. We simply imposed divine punishment and started a new game, actively creating this competition between the two species. The war between us and rats has become one body with two heads.
The two heads of a person are competing for nutrients. However, this competition and competition does not seem to be fair."
Huayin nodded, "Yes."
By midnight, all the vehicles in the National Academy of Sciences convoy were finally repaired. After simple rectification and fuel replenishment, and a lot of ammunition supplies, Zhou You and the leader of the National Academy of Sciences convoy expressed their gratitude and farewell to Zhang Jing and the commander of Fanyang City.
This mighty convoy began to turn around and head towards Lelai.
Zhou You was sitting in his car. Next to him was a young man wearing military green clothing.
In front of the young man was a small surveillance screen.
There are 16 windows on the display screen at the same time.
The picture in the window is the picture captured by the high-definition night vision camera of the long-endurance night vision airship drone.
Every experience leads to wisdom. Although we successfully repelled the siege of the rat army this time and used bioelectromagnetic radar to severely damage the rats, we cannot rule out the possibility of rats coming back again.
So before Zhang Jing left, he directly handed over an intelligence company team to Zhou You.
This intelligence company has a lot of military-grade equipment, which can achieve very good shooting accuracy at night with extremely poor lighting conditions. The small military terminal also has a very high-performance artificial intelligence algorithm that can quickly identify suspicious objects on the ground.
These sixteen airship drones are cruising quickly at an altitude of one kilometer above the ground, closely monitoring the situation within a 10km*10km range around the convoy.
"Mr. Zhou, you go and have a rest. I'm watching over here. If anything happens, I will issue a warning as soon as possible."
The commander of the Intelligence Company, that is, the young man said with a smile.
Zhou You hummed, "Okay, then I'll go to the car at the Academy of Sciences."
At about this time, Sun Shu and Huayin had completed the setup of the mobile laboratory.
Huayin had been contacting Zhou You and asked him to come over now to help with the research.
Zhou You stood up, stretched, and quickly walked to the roof of the car.
On the roof of the car is his drone.
Sun Shu and others' truck was just a little behind his off-road vehicle.
Two minutes later, the drone took off, then fell quickly and accurately landed on the truck.
After settling down, Zhou You untied the sling and walked towards the access hatch on the truck.
At this time, his mood was quite relaxed.
Zhou You turned around and looked around again, and saw the car lights of the motorcade forming a long queue in the dark night.
He sighed slightly.
Now he is not sure what these people can get from him, nor does he know how much help his third-level beyond limit can bring to mankind.
Frankly speaking, he was a little confused inside.
Fate is so unfair to mankind.
"Mr. Zhou, please sit down."
In the laboratory inside the truck, Zhou You followed Sun Shu's instructions and sat on a fairly comfortable chair.
Huayin in a white coat came from the side and said: "Although you said that you have achieved the third transcendental awakening, we haven't had time to update the research plan. For now, we will still follow the previous plan and travel around you.
What do you think?"
Zhou You nodded, "Okay, I have no objection."
"So, let me first remove some tissue from your body? Do you need anesthesia?"
Huayin took out a small scalpel.
Obviously, this is a scalpel rebuilt based on the current human body shape.
Zhou You hummed, "Okay. But give me the knife and I'll do it myself. I can cut it more accurately."