Chapter 50 Occult Course: The Law of Transmission of Implicit Knowledge
"Oh, it's nothing." Fan Ning suddenly woke up.
He smiled and said: "I just think it looks too strange, but I don't even understand Tulungarian and Noa, so this Guchaniz language is a holy book to me. Well, it's just
Intuitively weird.”
Fan Ning suppressed his excitement after seeing Chinese in this world.
Dupont said: "Then your intuition is quite accurate. If you have preliminary research and understanding of various ancient languages in the future, you will find that this Guchaniz language is really the strangest one."
"The Noa language family in the northern continent is an inflectional language. Part of it differentiated into Tulungarian, which retains this typical inflectional feature, and the other part differentiated into Archaic Hofmannian, which gradually evolved during its evolution.
Influenced by the Nileru people, the Tungus people on the coast, and the Janus people in the western continent, by the time you and I speak Hoffmann today, there are already some multimodal syntactic features of Lange. As for the southern continent
Several language families are mainly agglutinative languages"
These are not things that knowledgeable people need to study, right? Fan Ning was confused.
"But the grammatical characteristics of Guchanizi language do not seem to belong to any of the above categories. Its origin and age are a mystery, and it is called a 'mysterious isolated language' by some people. In the early part of the third history, there were very few scholars, such as this
He claimed to have deciphered a few characters, but from what I saw in his vague Tulungarian translation, I guess he translated it randomly. By the New Year, almost no one could understand a single character of Guchanizi.
Already."
Fan Ning felt a little funny when he heard this.
Even if it is normal Chinese, you may not be able to decipher many words.
This kind of Chinese with partially reversed word order, coupled with the "Mars"-style magical modification of glyphs, is amazing if you can understand it.
I almost vomited myself
"So" Dupont shook his head helplessly, "this "On Cost and Origin" has practical significance to us only in a small part of the author's annotations below the translation."
"The author summarizes some risk rules in the transmission of hidden knowledge, which can be used as a reference: for example, it is safer to have secret protection than not, 'reading or writing' is safer than 'listening or speaking', and vague expressions are better than clear
representation is safer, etc."
While Dupont was describing these laws, Fan Ning was looking at the small illustration on the open page of the book out of the corner of his eye.
He slowly recited the Chinese words above silently——
"Law of transmission of implicit knowledge:
The flow of implicit knowledge always follows this direction: from high level to low level, from the majority to the minority, from representation to will. Going in the opposite direction will always bear the cost of different forms."
Although I cannot fully understand this original sentence, it is obviously more comprehensive, concise, and more concise than what Dupont said!
Fan Ning listened to Dupont's story and flipped through the documents casually as if nothing had happened.
This book indeed only has a few scattered hand-copied illustrations, and the rest are "randomly translated" Tulungarian translations.
The only valuable information in it is this sentence, and the rest of the Chinese is really a mess of "dark fairy tale" fragments.
If you want to continue to obtain other information, you still have to continue listening.
Dupont continued his story.
“Then the author believes that the reason why accepting implicit knowledge risks spiritual contamination is: language!”
"Human thinking relies on language to exist. Even simple thinking requires at least the 'language of actions', while slightly more complex thinking relies on the 'language of words' as a carrier, such as implicit knowledge, which must rely on language.
"
"Language is the creation of the Lord of Witnesses. The birth and evolution history of each language is itself a secret history and the embodiment of the will of the Lord of Witnesses. Human beings survive and develop in the use of language, and they are also eternally gazed at by the Lord of Witnesses in the use of language.
."
When he heard this, Fan Ning's doubts about this also opened up.
But he had a vague conjecture, which made him a little excited. He continued to listen attentively to see if his conjecture could be confirmed!
"Finally, the author systematically summarizes the principles of risk avoidance and summarizes them into three forms of implicit knowledge transmission."
"The first type of transmission form: direct. With the help of language carrier, direct listening, speaking, reading and writing, this is high-risk transmission."
"The second type of transmission form: metaphorical. Using the carrier of language, but using metaphor or symbolism to process key information, this is a medium-risk transmission. The reason why those mystical books or church documents love ancient languages, and the words are unclear, is
They can tell stories and recite prayers for a while, precisely because they use the second type of delivery method."
"The third type of transmission form: creative type. Use non-verbal carriers, such as music, painting, sculpture, dance and other art forms to carry implicit knowledge. The author believes that this type of transmission is low-risk, and can even be theoretically risk-free
transfer."
Sure enough!!!
Fan Ning finally understood theoretically why music and art could bring him such an indescribable ultimate experience.
But then Dupont poured cold water on himself with his last words:
"But whether this type of form, such as music, can really carry hidden knowledge, and whether others can really understand it effectively, the answer is questionable. The threshold requirements for creators and appreciators are too high. It may be that in a long time, music and art and other art forms will
, its role in occultism still exists as a kind of secret atmosphere - as a component of the secret ritual."
"But the author believes that using non-verbal forms of artistic creation to gain insight into the truth may be the only way for future intellectuals to escape chaos and shadows, climb to the dome of the Hui Pagoda, and achieve complete spiritual freedom."
Fan Ning's eyes changed several times during the lecture.
How rare are those who have knowledge, and 99% of those who have knowledge spend their whole lives exploring in the flux, but they are unable to enter the door of the Hui Pagoda and become enlightened ones.
Perhaps only by entering the Huita and climbing to the dome can you truly know the essence of the world behind the surface.
"Today's class is over, I'm going to practice the piano." Dupont stood up, interrupting Fan Ning's thoughts.
"Thanks."
After Dupont opened the door of the office, he turned back:
"Caron, you must understand that a knowledgeable person can never absolutely avoid the risk of hidden knowledge. Even if you deliberately turn a deaf ear all day long, the chaotic will of the world will contaminate you pervasively, because you have already seen it."
"Keep the spirit of inquiry, and don't stop eating because of choking. But the discussion and sharing of written documents, the metaphors of literature and art, and the protection of mystical rituals when necessary are always better than the oral expression of mysticism. So you must master the ancient language as soon as possible. The authors of these books are writing
At the same time, they are more or less treated as metaphors. The books in your office mainly deal with low-level tacit knowledge, and the risk of reading based on your inspiration is relatively low."
So Fan Ning asked: "So what exactly are the risks brought about by exposure to hidden knowledge?"
"various types."
Dupont's voice was a bit eerie:
"They will become a symbiosis that you cannot let go of, subtly affecting your character and values, tampering with your memory and cognition, stimulating the growth of your desires and dark side, and causing your personality to deviate from its original appearance. They will make you
Seeing things you shouldn't see, hearing sounds you shouldn't hear, and smelling things you shouldn't smell will cause you to have all kinds of thoughts you shouldn't have, which will eventually lead to you being 'distorted' or 'lost'."
"When you hear my words, your first feeling is fear and disgust, right?"
"But in fact, when some changes occur, you accept them in your heart. You don't know it yourself. You feel that you should be like this, and you even think that this is the transformation trajectory of your own 'mental journey'."
Even though Viadlin had told him the tone of the world and he had made his choice, Fan Ning still felt a chill in his heart when he heard these words, especially the latter part.
"Is this the price of pursuing invisible power?" Fan Ning's tone was a little solemn.
And Dupont's last answer before closing the door was quite meaningful:
"Guido Dallezzo, the first leader of the Guidance School, once said a famous saying——"