"That's a good question."
Mr. Turing seemed to have already thought about it, and quickly replied: "The dragon civilization has a history of at least tens of thousands of years, which is much longer than the human civilization of about five thousand years, but its heyday does not seem to have reached
The height of our expectations.”
"To a certain extent, development is indeed relatively slow, and there must be some deep-seated reasons hidden in it."
"Using my theory to explain, it is natural that the total amount of information storage of the dragon civilization has entered a bottleneck period, and the development speed of civilization has slowed down, stagnated, and even regressed... And if we study further, we have to ask the dragon and the
Find the reason in terms of information exchange channels between dragons.”
"As far as I know, dragons have never developed technology like the Internet, and they probably don't have communication methods like telegraphs, telephones, and radios, and high-precision image communication methods such as camera photos, and I'm afraid they may not have them either.
"
Elizabeth took the topic and said thoughtfully: "Communication between dragons should rely on large-scale speech spirits such as 'snake', or 'roar'... It is recorded in the classics that the Black King is on the throne.
The roar it makes can spread to every corner of Eurasia."
"Yes, the 'Vacuum Snake' is considered to be the mainstream long-distance communication method of the Dragon Clan civilization." Mr. Turing nodded: "Since the cities where the Dragon Clan live are connected by metal roads, the speech spirit is completely amplified by the conductor.
Can have a communication range comparable to that of radio technology.”
"According to legend, at the beginning of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla expanded his speech field to cover the entire earth with the increase of the amplification coil. However, while in country M, he detected the Tunguska explosion in Siberia.
...Of course, the elemental turbulence caused by the Tunguska explosion is extremely powerful, which is also the reason why he was able to successfully detect it."
"But in general, compared with the productivity level of the dragon civilization itself, their information exchange and recording tools are quite inefficient. They basically do not exceed the level of mankind in the early 20th century, and significantly lag behind the contemporary era - this is also why we
We can start from information theory and study the reasons why.”
"The transmission and storage of information is the cornerstone of the development of civilization. These low-precision and low-efficiency information exchange methods rely more on spiritual communication, which not only limits the development speed of the dragon civilization, but also leads to the accumulation of their internal knowledge and
The inheritance becomes very difficult.”
"We humans, on the other hand, continue to make breakthroughs in the way of information transmission, which far exceeds the limitations of living organisms. We pass knowledge, experience, and thoughts to future generations across time and space, and establish an increasingly efficient education system.
This has enabled our civilization to develop rapidly."
"Imagine what the world would be like today if we still used telegraphs or telephones to transmit information?" Mr. Turing's words made everyone think deeply.
"In addition to the issue of information exchange, the social structure of the dragon civilization is also an important factor restricting their development."
Mr. Turing changed the subject: "Within the dragon civilization, there is no normal family structure, lack of family ties and love bonds, clear hierarchy between the second, third and fourth generations, and serious class solidification. This has caused the dragon people to fall into a low status.
Desire, a state of not seeking development, lack of opportunities for upward mobility, and lack of motivation to promote the development of civilization."
"They tend more towards literary and artistic creation that satisfies individual spiritual pursuits, rather than the research and exploration of technologies such as alchemy. These spiritual things are precisely difficult to interpret through information transmission, exchange and inheritance.
It’s extremely troublesome to get up.”
Turing emphasized: "If the method of information transmission remains unchanged and the number of highly educated dragons no longer grows, under normal circumstances, civilization will first develop at an average speed, and then the speed will become slower and slower, and it will eventually stop at a certain upper limit.
.”
"Until an unknown number of years later, a coincidence broke through the technological barrier, or resources were exhausted, showing a gradual decline trend."
Angers interjected: "So, humans should have a greater advantage over dragon civilization in this regard?" There was a hint of optimism in his tone: "Maybe it won't take many years to catch up with dragon civilization.
Peak level?”
"You are wrong. Perhaps we have more advanced information exchange methods and a more reasonable social structure, but even so, the scientific and technological development of human civilization is still facing huge challenges." Mr. Turing changed the topic and his expression changed.
Seriously, "That's a question of the limits of intelligence."
"The pinnacle of the development of science and technology in a civilization depends largely on the level of individual intelligence, or the total amount of individual information stored. This is true for both dragons and humans."
"It has to be said that although human intelligence has reached a very high level, our brains still have many limitations. For example, our brains have limited capacity and cannot process a large amount of information at the same time; our memory is not perfect either.
, often forgetting some important knowledge.”
"More importantly, our life span is limited and we cannot exhaust all fields of knowledge. Today, when various disciplines are highly differentiated, even the greatest scientists and scholars can only explore certain knowledge within a limited time.
A small part of the field.”
"If everyone, even geniuses, spend their entire lives unable to learn a piece of professional knowledge in a certain knowledge system and are unable to make new developments, then the development of science may have reached its upper limit."
“For example, just like this research project in my hand, the mathematical models and iterative algorithms used in it require even an ordinary PhD graduate from Cambridge University to require at least twenty years of continuous study to fully understand the mysteries.
And this is just the tip of the scientific iceberg.”
"In comparison, the naturally long life of dragons, coupled with the ultra-high-speed memory transmission method of 'spiritual vision', has huge advantages - not to mention, the dragon blood from the mixed race has brought them
In terms of high IQ, the average intelligence of dragons should be much higher than that of us humans."
"So, although we humans have advantages in some aspects, our scientific development also faces limits. Primitive and crude brains and short lives are the biggest limitations to our scientific development."
Mr. Turing sighed, "For example, in terms of energy, since Watt invented the steam engine, we still rely on boiling water to obtain power, and research on magnetic fluids is far away. In the field of chemistry, we have not even fully understood the most basic
The chemical reaction mechanism..."
"Over the past 100 years, the seemingly simple question of why a bicycle does not fall over has troubled countless physicists and mathematicians. For this reason, they have also published papers in English, German, French, Russian, Italian, etc.
Hundreds of papers in various languages..."
"Although human civilization has made many great achievements, there are still many unsolved mysteries in our scientific theories. Except for logically rigorous mathematical systems, almost all of them are based on the 'mud' of empiricism. After countless times
A 'dilapidated building' that needs to be repaired to stand firm."
"The dragon civilization may have faced the same problem." Mr. Turing concluded: "The reason for their slow development is probably due to the limitations of their information transmission methods and social structure. And when human civilization itself also faces
When faced with similar restrictions, perhaps we should cherish our achievements more and work hard to find ways to break through."
"From the perspective of making up for the disadvantages, if you want to step into the threshold of Type I civilization, you must achieve extraordinary transformation of some people and further improve them on the basis of hybrids, so that they have individual qualities similar to those of dragons."
Mr. Turing lamented, "Now, we have been enjoying the dividends of the past, developing along the inertia at the outermost boundary of scientific theories. Once the top scholars cannot complete the breakthrough, the entire civilization may fall into the 'Great Stagnation'
'status."
"By then, we may only be able to grow in size, but the quality will remain the same." Mr. Turing's words were full of worries about the future: "To be honest, I often think about it.
, when humans replaced the dragons, was it a mistake that needed to be corrected?"
"What's the mistake?" After listening to Turing's long speech just now, Zhao Qing was thoughtful and felt that it was roughly consistent with what he thought, but there was still a slight difference, so he casually asked: "Is it related to the existence of hybrids?"
"The essence of hybrids is a degraded version of dragons." Turing pointed out unabashedly: "As far as the foreseeable future is concerned, there is reason to believe that they will follow the old path of dragon civilization and establish a civilization similar to dragons.
The social system is divided into hierarchies based on blood status."
"For ordinary people, it doesn't actually matter whether the one who rules is a 'human' or a dragon. There is no big difference. Even in peacetime and with the same technical conditions, life may be better under the rule of the dragon clan.
, this can also be seen from the degree of damage to the natural environment caused by the development of both parties."
"Looking at the longer term, the dragon civilization has been proven to be able to last for at least tens of thousands of years without self-destruction. But for precocious human civilization, this is hard to say." Turing smiled slightly: "Those years of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union
, the specter of global nuclear war has always been hanging over everyone, isn’t it?”
"Belittling humans and admiring dragons is too deviant." Angers slammed the table, lit up his blazing golden eyes, and responded coldly: "Are you denying the secret party's sacrifice and dedication over the years?"
"...You should know what I'm talking about." Mr. Turing was stunned: "Neo-feudalism based on technology monopoly, modern slavery based on debt relationships, this kind of oppression may become more and more severe in the future.
The more widespread it exists. If no changes are made, the dragon slayer will eventually become an evil dragon."
You have the guts to say this in front of big bosses! No wonder Turing was marginalized by the Secret Party. As a veteran and top scholar, his academic level is at the forefront of the world, but he is reduced to doing research alone at home.
degree.
Zhao Qing glanced at Elizabeth Laurent opposite, and found that the other party did not feel angry because of this, but listened and thought carefully. It seemed that her heart was quite pure and not polluted too much. She was indeed a student of art and deserved it.
Make some friends.
It is basically certain that this person is not one of the so-called "dark side monarchs".
If you want to choose some cooperation partners in the secret party, Turing, Angers, and Elizabeth are all pretty good, especially Turing's information theory of civilization development, which is of great use to me and provides a new perspective of thinking.
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In her opinion, in every dream world, since the material resources cannot be taken away, the most important thing is the inheritable information, knowledge and wisdom.
In addition to the various academic materials that have been accumulated in the current world, if you want to research new results more efficiently and quickly, Turing's theory of civilization development using the total amount of information as an indicator is one of the most scientific guiding ideas. You can use
Mathematical models plan the future direction of the entire civilization.
If development is centered on productivity, even if dozens of nuclear fusion power stations are built, it will be basically useless to Zhao Qing personally. On the contrary, several papers on high-dimensional space topology may make her
There has been a breakthrough in understanding the laws of space.
Similarly, this model can also most likely deduce the gathering points of past information and locate the general range of high-value ruins, helping her to gain rich harvests from them.
To be continued...