Cyber Heroes

In the early 1940s, in a laboratory in Beiping, Xiang Shan was sitting on the console. And behind him are many experts including Chen Feng. Most of these researchers come from the field of cognitive science.

The opposite of them is a man sitting in a chair. This man is about fifty years old, wearing a goggles device a bit like a game character cosplay on his head. But this device is essentially a decorative object to make up for the uncanny valley effect caused by his oversized artificial eye. Before this, the volunteer's wife and child had repeatedly complained that his artificial eye was "scary".

Early artificial eyes were slightly larger than the eyeballs of natural persons.

The man's artificial eye is closed, and the artificial ear has also adjusted the mode, blocking the sound, and can only "hear" the voice signal input from the outside. Xiang Shan picked up the microphone and said to the volunteer: "Mr. Pan, this is the last time. I will repeat it for the last time. This experiment may bring you some physical discomfort, and it will last for a relatively long period of time. Time. If you can't stand it, you can withdraw at any time."

"I see, it's written in the contract." The man said nonchalantly.

This Mr. Pan is from Zhili (place name), and he usually works in massage. When he was born, his mother had a dystocia, and his retina was damaged, causing Innate's amblyopia. For him, this World has only a faint sense of light. In the sun, people or vehicles are "small black balls passing by in a flash." Last year, when he was worshipping the ancestors in his hometown, he didn't leave in time due to his bad eyes, causing serious hearing damage.

At this time, the company founded by Xiang Shan developed the first generation of artificial eyes and ears, and entered the trial phase. They recruited volunteers extensively and launched a series of cognitive science research. When Mr. Pan heard the news, he immediately signed up.

The company will provide volunteers with sensory prostheses that were hard to find at the time. These volunteers need to cooperate in a series of experiments.

These artificial senses have obtained reliable data on primates. However, scientists still want to explore the role of "perception" in the process of human cognition.

Mr. Pan regained his "vision" after obtaining the prosthetic eye before. When he was at first, he could indeed see things, but he couldn't distinguish the colors, and he didn't know what he saw. He can't even tell the "near and far", he even feels that the ground under the windows on the fifth floor is "reachable". He cannot describe his vision.

The process of his mastering vision is similar to the process of a baby's mastering vision, but faster-he only needs to establish a connection between his existing experience and visual signals.

The process of "Mastering Vision" by Mr. Pan also left a lot of important research materials.

Now, it has been a year since the former amblyopic person mastered vision. What he is now participating in is the experiment of "hearing and vision replacement".

Early psychologists believed that if the outer end of the optic nerve was connected to the ear, and then the auditory nerve was connected to the eye, humans should be able to hear lightning and see thunder. But in fact, human senses are much more complicated than this, and visual processing and auditory processing are not realized by the same neural activity.

"Vision" is not presented in the form of "video" in the brain. External light will arouse the excitement of cone and rod cells on the retina. This excitement is transformed into a continuous nerve signal. The "vision" processed by the brain is actually the "signal" rather than the "image" itself. Scholars are interested in how this signal constitutes the world that humans perceive.

In this experiment, the image received by Mr. Pan’s artificial eye will not be sent to the optic nerve after being converted into a neural signal, but will be forwarded to the router, and then connected to the artificial ear by the router , Enter the brain along the auditory nerve; and after the stimulation received by the artificial ear is converted into a nerve signal, it will also pass through the router and enter the optic nerve from the artificial eye.

However, when this experiment was carried out on monkeys, some monkeys close to 2/3/2021 showed abnormal mania, so Xiang Shan would warn again and again.

After the routine procedure, Xiang Shan looked at Chen Feng.

Chen Feng nodded, said: "The experiment begins."

"It is 9:45 in the morning, the first experiment." Xiang Shan said as he knocked down The Enter key.

The instructions that have been written a long time ago begin to run.

Mr. Pan’s vision and hearing have been reversed.

Mr. Pan’s first sentence was "It's so noisy."

And the second sentence is "This is my voice?"

The third sentence is "Why is this so green? Ah-ah? Ah, ah! Oh! Hey! Hey! Wipe! This sound...so **cool!"

Then Mr. Pan raised his hand to signal that he wanted to stand up. Xiang Shan opened the mouth and said: "Permit."

Mr. Pan did not understand. He exclaimed: "What's this? A bunch of flowers... Did you say anything? To the professor? It was you just talking?"

"Yes." Xiang Shan replied tentatively.

But Mr. Pan still didn't understand: "Damn, I know what this color means..."

As he said, he stood up impatiently.

Next, Mr. Pan’s complexion greatly changed. He tried to walk one step forward, but he didn't grasp the posture of his body at all, and immediately fell to the ground, vomiting.

Xiang Shan immediately stopped the program. The on-call emergency class on the side quickly followed up [this is mainly to prevent shock caused by photosensitive epilepsy, hysteria, and severe mood swings]

But in the subsequent report, the researchers learned that one was expected Among the conclusions.

Mr. Pan’s vomiting comes from the confusion of the original sense of direction. He "hears" the light from his front, and "sees" the sound of the power on his left and right sides. After starting to exercise, this caused severe motion sickness.

In the follow-up experiments, the researchers chose to let Mr. Pan wear a covered helmet. This helmet has two artificial ears on the front and two artificial eyes on the side.

In the next series of experiments, Mr. Pan maintained this state. He was totally immersed in "excitement" for about three days. He will continue to try his own voices to see what it "looks like". He will be like a baby, constantly grabbing small objects, throwing them on the ground, to "see" and "listen"-he will interact with this World in various ways.

But after three days, boredom gradually emerged. He began to become anxious. Because in this state, he couldn't understand other people's language. The words of other people "in his eyes" are a halo of brilliance.

Mr. Pan is not the only person involved in the experiment. There are dozens of volunteers in the same batch. Overwhelming majority volunteers withdrew from the experiment at this first stage because of unbearable anxiety. But a few people persisted.

Scientists play music to these people, let them try to draw, let them hum any song.

According to the report, these volunteers will use "music" to describe their surroundings. To them, incandescent lamps are like zi zi white noise. The sunlight is similar to gurgling water. The natural scenery is like a complicated movement in their eyes. When they describe food, they often use sounds such as "gu gu" or "slobber" that easily trigger the association of "hunger".

In addition, some people even learned to "listen to others."

They are fully adapted to this strange pattern.

The human brain can be modified through experience to re-establish its own perceptual processing mode.

The recent "non-auditory training" is based on these early experiments.

The construction of Saussure’s Divine Realm allows some of the brain’s functions to have a higher level and more complex connections. An internal strength expert can occupy the brain nerve resources of "visual processing" and use it to "process hearing". This mechanism is similar to the "compensation" of "blind people's hearing is more acute", but it is more controllable.

"I actually have similar seeds, but I have never done related exercises...Matsushima and Jardel are just going deeper. Just concentrate...I can do it too." Xiang Shan is right He said: "I want to see thunder, hear the flash..."

In his consciousness, the sound of the "storm" turned into a steady flowing black. In this piece of ink...

——"See"...

He saw more "feet", saw more "prosthetic contours", I saw the "vibration of the engine"...

It was as conspicuous as a small flash of light in the dark.

Martial Artists who know this well in this era do not need to do so "deliberately". They no longer need to process the information visually. All this can be done "out of consciousness".

But for Xiang Shan, this is still an improvement.

"Countdown...Three, two, one..."

With a sound of "hong", another bomb exploded. Sound waves run over like war chariot.

Almost at the same time, synchronously, Xiang Shan ran wildly.

Under the cover of the sound waves, he instantly passed between two rangers less than two meters apart.

——You can see...

The troops on the blockade line are quickly mobilized. Countless squads moved wildly behind him. The bullets roared and suppressed the Quartet.

But Xiang Shan continues to deepen.

He could hear another retrograde movement amidst the complex sound of footsteps. That is Jadel.

The two walked silently in the sand and dust for about two hundred meters, and then they leaned together.

"Pretty." Jardel said: "But Old Brother, don't you understand it? I didn't understand'non-hearing' before trying to test me?"

"No, just I want to learn about newer theories." Xiang Shan shook the head.

Because the sand and dust are still mixed with this considerable iron, they still can't use Wireless Electronics. You can only speak this way.

"The nearby rangers heard the explosion and they will soon gather." Jardel said: "It is not easy to get information from them."

Xiang Shan said: "Walk another two hundred meters. After two hundred meters, let's go find those wandering riders!"