Chapter 922 Attack

Whales are mammals and need to breathe. Their bodies have been highly adapted to the ocean, and they can breathe only 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 surface for air.

Sleep seems to be a problem for whales as well.

Different species of whales use many different ways to solve this problem. Each whale has one or more special skills in terms of sleep.

For example, the rhythm of whales in the deep sea is almost completely out of sync with day and night. They will move at any time during the day and night.

Some whales have also mastered another skill. They can sleep in small amounts and multiple times, each time for more than ten minutes of deep sleep, many times a day.

Of course, the most amazing and common one is "resting half of the brain".

Many whales, including almost all dolphins, can put one hemisphere of their brain to sleep alone, and then keep the other one functioning.

Of course, this naturally caused strong discomfort in the prosthetic central chip. Many early operating bugs were related to this.

The left and right brains of humans have a more obvious focus, and the two can only wake up or sleep synchronously.

Humans with a defect in the corpus callosum that connects the left and right brains will even have a magical phenomenon.

After these people see something on the left side of their vision, they can't describe the object correctly, and even feel that they didn't see it, but their hands can accurately point out where the thing is, as if their hands and brains belong to two different wills.

When they were asked to copy simple three-dimensional graphics with their left and right hands, these right-handed subjects could only copy with their left hands, and their right hands could only draw two-dimensional lines without any sense of space.

But later studies have shown that these differences appear as humans grow up. Scientists have found special volunteers who were born without the 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 division 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 those of humans.

Ola Freeman had also thought about developing a research and development plan for dolphin chips based on this difference. However, he is a pure biologist and has never been able to put those ideas into practice.

He even thought about installing a neural prosthesis in the corpus callosum and rebuilding a user-device interaction mode to avoid the impact of the dolphins' half-brain dormancy nature.

But from Xiangshan's point of view, who personally participated in the research and development of the central chip for humans, many of Ola Freeman's ideas are good ideas and can be explored as directions.

Of course, for Ola, these are all projects that require a lot of resources to invest in research and development, and may not produce results for a while.

On Xiangshan's side, he naturally thinks about the possibility of applying those transformation ideas that start with the corpus callosum to martial arts.

Among the many data left by the Eighth Martial God, some also involve this area of ​​the brain. It's just that the Eighth Martial God's focus is not here. He wants to study the artificial neural network model that can pass on internal skills. But at least there are some records.

——Perhaps I need to go to the database of the Knights of Scientific Research to find relevant information...

——Or, the Six Dragons Cult...

Xiangshan thought so.

During the research, Xiangshan also touched upon another concept mentioned in Aura's research records - Whale Dream.

Whales talk in their sleep when half of their brain is dormant.

It is not known whether this is a phenomenon that only occurs in standard whales after their intelligence has been improved, or whether it is a trait that whale ancestors have.

The rhythm of whales has nothing to do with the sun and the moon. Whales sleep in small amounts and multiple times. Whales only sleep with half of their brains at a time...

In other words, as long as the size of the group is large enough, at the same time, there will always be a small part of a group of whales in a sleeping state.

The sleep talk emitted by these sleeping whales, the language of whales, will spread along the sea water to a far place until it is received by another big whale with a half-brain like a dream.

According to Aura Freeman, when a whale's half brain falls asleep, his language will undergo subtle changes.

The language of these whales is a Creole language mixed with the languages ​​of many different whales. When a whale's half brain falls asleep, the parts of this language that do not conform to its own racial nature will be greatly reduced - but they will not disappear. The whale has accepted to think in this mixed language.

And this kind of sleep talk will inexplicably affect other whales of the same species who have fallen into dreams with the same half brain, and even whales with half brains in dreams will communicate in this changed new language.

These half-awake whales seem to be not only in the same reality, but also in the same dream.

But as two hundred years go by, the acquired effect of language seems to be strengthened from generation to generation. Different species of whales seem to be able to communicate with each other in sleep talk.

When the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere are dormant, there are even some differences in the changes in language.

Similar phenomena have been observed in killer whales and dolphins.

Ola had also thought about using virtual reality to study the dreams of killer whales. However, since this dormant mode is completely different from the way the human brain works, when the killer whales start to dream, the prosthetic central chip is prone to errors. It is basically impossible to maintain a stable connection.

It is said that the adult killer whales who abandoned their bodies to escape hunger were not used to it at first, but eventually accepted the reality of "sleeping in a lot of error warnings."

And as Xiangshan learned the whale language and used the opening and closing of the artificial neural network in his mind to simulate the whale's thinking, he began to experience a new mental operation mode.

Gradually, he began to integrate into the "dream" of the whale.

He heard the obscure infrasound hidden in the roar of the earth and the surging of the sea water that came with the ocean current...

He heard...

"The cry of the dolphin?" Xiangshan suddenly opened his eyes. He interpreted the message floating along the ocean current.

Under his feet, the great whale Hope Deman sped up and let out a low roar. Klediqi and Xikasi shouted briefly, as if they were in a state of ecstasy, and were speeding in a certain direction.

"What's going on?" Xiangshan was very surprised: "You were attacked? Who? Why?"