Whales are mammals and need to breathe. Their bodies have been highly adapted to the ocean and can breathe once every tens of minutes. However, unlike all land mammals, they must actively decide when to breathe.
Land mammals can breathe unconsciously, but whales cannot. They must decide when to come up for air.
Sleep also seems to be an issue for whales.
Different species of whales use many different ways to solve this problem. Each whale has one or several special skills in sleep.
For example, the rhythm of whales operating in the deep sea is almost completely disconnected from day and night. They will be active at any time during the day and night.
Some whales have also mastered another skill. They can sleep in small amounts and many times, in deep sleep for more than ten minutes each time, many times a day.
Of course, the most magical and common thing is to "let half the brain rest."
Many species of whales, including nearly all dolphins, can put one hemisphere of their brains to sleep while leaving the other functioning.
Of course, this naturally caused strong discomfort to the prosthetic central chip. Many early running bugs were related to this.
There is a clear distinction between the left brain and the right brain of humans, and the two can only wake up or sleep synchronously.
Humans with a defect in the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right brains, may even experience a miraculous phenomenon.
After these people see something on the left side of their field of vision, they cannot describe the object correctly with their mouths. They may even feel that they have not seen the thing, but their hands can accurately point out where the thing is, as if their hands
It belongs to two different wills from the brain.
When they were asked to copy simple three-dimensional figures with their left and right hands, these right-handed subjects could only use their left hand to complete the copying, and their right hand could only draw two-dimensional lines with no sense of space.
But later research showed that these differences appeared as humans grew up. Scientists once found special volunteers who were born with a missing corpus callosum, proving that the right brain can also have language functions, and the left brain can also have spatial imagination.
But in dolphins, this distinction is much smaller.
The structure of the corpus callosum of dolphins and the connection pattern of the two hemispheres of the brain are obviously different from humans.
Ola Freeman also thought about developing a research and development plan for dolphin chips based on this difference. However, he was a pure biologist and was never able to implement those ideas.
He even considered installing neuroprosthetics in the corpus callosum to reconstruct a user-device interaction model to avoid the impact of dolphins' half-brain hibernation nature.
However, from the perspective of Xiang Shan, who personally participated in the research and development of central chips for human use, many of Ola Freeman's ideas are good ideas and can be explored as directions.
Of course, for Aola, these are all projects that require a lot of resources to invest in research and development, and may not be able to produce results for a while.
On Xiangshan's side, he was naturally thinking about the possibility of applying the transformation ideas on the corpus callosum to martial arts.
Among the many data left by the Eighth Martial God, some also involve this area of the brain. However, the Eighth Martial God’s focus is not here. He wants to study artificial neural network models that can pass on internal strength. But at least there are some records.
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——Maybe you need to go to the database of the Scientific Research Knights to find relevant information...
——Or, the Six Dragons Sect...
Xiangshan thought so.
In the process of research, Xiangshan also touched on another concept mentioned in Aura's research records - whale dreams.
The dreamy babble produced by whales when half of their brains are asleep.
I don’t know if this is a phenomenon that only occurs in standardized whales after their intelligence has been improved, or if it is a trait possessed by the ancestors of whales.
The rhythm of whales has nothing to do with the sun and moon. Whales sleep in small amounts and many times. Only half of their brains sleep at a time...
In other words, as long as the size of the group is large enough, at the same time, a small part of a group of whales will always be sleeping.
The dream babbles emitted by these sleeping whales, the language of whales, will spread far away along the seawater until they are received by another whale with half a dream-like brain.
According to Ola Freeman, when half of a whale's brain falls asleep, its speech undergoes subtle changes.
The language of these whales is a Creole language, mixed with the languages of many different whales. When the whale's brain is half asleep, the parts of this language that are not in line with the nature of its own race will be greatly reduced - but it does not
It's not going away, whales have embraced thinking in this hybrid language.
And this kind of dream chatting will also inexplicably affect other whales of the same species with the same half of their brains trapped in dreams, and even whales with half their brains in dreams will communicate in this new changed language.
These half-dreaming whales seem to be not only in the same reality, but also in the same dream.
But with the passage of two hundred years, the acquired role of language seems to have strengthened from generation to generation. Different species of whales also seem to be able to communicate with each other in their sleep.
There are even some differences in the changes in language when the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere are sleeping.
Similar phenomena have been observed in killer whales and dolphins.
Aura has also thought about using virtual reality to study the dreams of killer whales. However, because this sleep mode is completely different from the way the human brain operates, when the killer whales start to dream, the prosthetic central chip is prone to reporting an error. Basically
Unable to maintain stable connection.
It is said that adult killer whales who gave up their bodies to escape starvation were not used to it at first, but eventually accepted the reality of "sleeping amid a large number of error warnings."
As Xiangshan learned the language of whales and used the opening and closing of the artificial neural network in his mind to simulate the thinking of whales, he began to experience a new mode of mental operation.
Gradually, he began to merge into the whale's "dream".
He heard the obscure infrasound that came with the ocean currents, hidden in the roar of the earth and the surging sea water...
He heard it...
"The cry of dolphins?" Xiangshan suddenly opened his eyes. He interpreted the message floating along the ocean current.
Under his feet, the whale Haupderman sped up and let out a low roar. Kledechi and Hikasi shouted briefly, seeming to have fallen into some kind of ecstasy, heading towards a certain place.
direction of acceleration.
"What's going on?" Xiang Shan was very surprised: "You were attacked? Who? Why?"