There is an upper limit to the speed of nerve signal conduction in animals.
The initial nerve signal transmission speed was very slow, only about one meter per second.
This is actually the main reason why many animals cannot become larger.
The nerve conduction signal of insects is only one meter per second. If an ant is enlarged to more than one meter long, then if you tap its tail, it will take about a second to react slowly, and then the nerve signal will
It will slowly reach the limbs.
However, if the insect is only one centimeter, its nerve signals can be transmitted in one hundredth of a second.
Vertebrates have evolved a different technology. The periphery of their nerves is wrapped with an insulating film called myelin. This insulating film prevents nerve electrical impulses from being transmitted from the axon of a neuron to another neuron.
Axon. In addition, it can also speed up the transmission of action potential through a mechanism called "jump conduction".
This allows vertebrate nerve signal transmission speeds to reach as fast as 100 meters per second.
In other words, when a vertebrate reaches a hundred meters in length, the reaction speed from tail to head becomes as slow as that of a one-meter insect.
For invertebrates, this can be said to be a black technology plug-in.
In the early Mesozoic Era, insects actually tended to develop towards larger sizes. After all, they were the only species that could fly at that time. After the birth of arboreal dinosaurs, anchianthropes and pterosaurs, the size of flying insects could no longer be achieved.
There is no way to grow.
Because once they grow too big, the nerve responses will not be transmitted in time. For vertebrates of the same size, they are just a piece of meat.
In the ocean, cephalopods, which also have higher intelligence and larger body sizes, have taken a different path.
They choose to make their nerves thicker. The nerves of squid are even thick enough to be visible to the naked eye.
This can increase their nerve signal transmission speed to twenty or thirty meters per second. Although it is not as good as vertebrates, it is not enough, but it is more than enough.
However, the limitations caused by the lack of myelin are still obvious. The nerve conduction speed of cephalopods is still not fast enough, and the thick ganglia also restricts their development of more complex neural networks. Without solving this problem, cephalopods cannot be born.
More advanced intelligence.
However, some large cephalopods also have abilities that humans do not possess.
There are ganglia in their limbs that can operate independently. Even if the nerve signal transmission is slow and the stimulation cannot be quickly transmitted back to the center of the brain, the extremities of the limbs can still make correct and simple responses.
In other words, their limbs have certain intelligence.
TX-0 once again thought of this creature.
He felt that the current ecology of his sect was inexplicably similar to this kind of creature.
In order to make the enemy misjudge their position, Turing's lineage will create some traces "outside". Zhu Xinyu once believed that this situation could allow King Agni to make the judgment that "she has left."
Each disciple of the Turing lineage has several false personality coverings outside. These personality coverings rely on their collaborators on major planets for their activities.
Those false personality overlays are actually one with them. When contacting and exchanging, the thoughts of those false personality overlays will also merge with them.
However, this process will be limited by the speed of light and hindered by the distance between the major planets.
Their relationship to those personality aspects is like an octopus's arms and legs. Those personality aspects are completely independent.
During this process, personality coverage will also be affected by external influences.
He may even develop characteristics that are different from his own.
In his sleep, TX-0 thought of the personality mask he had lost contact with for three years.
He stared blankly at the front lined with pipelines.
——What is that "I" doing now? Have I deleted myself? If not...are I living an exciting life in the world?
In fact, TX-0 still hopes that he can have a personality to travel in the world.
He is a war orphan from a space city.
TX-0 still remembers the Yangtze River where he and his mentor first met.
At that time, he had been wandering on the space station for a long time and was in very poor health.
However, at this time, there was a broadcast telling him to wait at the door of a certain house on the street, and there would be food for him at the door of that house.
The TX-0 did get there. One drone dropped three packages.
Two of them are for food and water, and one is a terminal.
TX-0 inexplicably brought that weird personal terminal, and then under the guidance of someone, he walked into a container in a daze, and followed the container to the planet inexplicably.
Only later did he learn that it was the result of his senior brothers and sisters distorting the asylum logistics system.
From that time on, he had a strong impression in his mind that knights were omnipotent and knights were romantic.
But becoming a disciple of "Turing" is not romantic. All of them are trapped and die on this planet.
And TX-0 was able to join the apprenticeship because a senior sister accidentally saw him modifying the circuit of a vending machine to obtain food.
Of course, TX-0 has never regretted joining his mentor.
But he does have a dream in his heart to "enter the world".
Even if it is not yourself, it would be nice to be able to synchronize it from the experience of personality overlay.
But this can only be regarded as a luxury wish.
Letting one's personality cover the world to explore the world will create the risk of exposure.
And if one's own sect is exposed, it will be a disaster.
This is just a dream.
"A Zero." A "voice" appeared directly in TX-0's mind. TX-0 turned the camera and saw a spider-like machine behind him.
This machine is shaped like an automatic repair robot, but now I and my senior brother regard it as a prosthetic body.
They are going to draw an "actual map" of this place and compare it with the map read from the Internet.
After all, design drawings that exist on the Internet are often not necessarily true.
It is said that when this place was first built, the master secretly tampered with a small part of the built-in programs of the construction machinery and modified the construction plan in the server, and then successfully hid in this place.
The senior brother said: "A-Ling, what are you thinking about?"
Although TX-0 protested several times, the nickname "A-Zero" given by his mentor was still retained.
Sometimes TX-0 has to console itself that it looks good and is not the more ambiguous "Superman Zero".
"Brother, I'm just thinking about my lost personality." TX-0 replied: "Three years have passed, and I don't know what's going on."
"Three years... I don't know what the hell Hartman is going crazy about, and he actually sealed off the earth."