346: Chapter 346: How Geniuses Are Forged

Just as he finished speaking, a voice came from the seat by the window.

Professor Guan Jingming raised his hand, "Xiao Jiang, I have a question, and it's not about dimensions."

Jiang Zhe looked at him and nodded.

"Could you talk about the original intent behind the xia nation consciousness?"

"Why did you come up with the concept of a Type III Super Artificial Intelligence?"

"Ever since you confessed last time that you knew you were being livestreamed, I've been curious: how exactly was the source of the xia nation consciousness discovered?"

"I am a computer science professor; I've studied it my whole life, yet I never thought about questions in this area."

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the living room changed abruptly.

Professor Hans Müller, sitting next to him, his eyes lit up as he said in Chinese with a slight foreign accent:

"I want to hear it too; this is the frontier of engineering science."

Li Mo, sitting next to Guan Jingming, nodded repeatedly, his tone full of eagerness: "Right, Brother Jiang, I want to learn too."

"For that simulation of the xia nation consciousness, my teacher and I just followed the framework you gave us, and it succeeded overnight."

"But the source—how did you think of it? I've always been curious about that."

"..."

At this moment, the viewers suddenly realized.

"Good grief, so the xia nation consciousness is real."

"Aren't you afraid of leaking secrets? Doesn't this require a non-disclosure agreement?"

"To the person above, the non-disclosure agreement officially became void after our bro confessed he was being livestreamed and brought it up."

"I see. I really want to know too."

"Do you know how exciting this is for programmers? This kind of innovative thinking is super powerful!"

"The xia nation consciousness is finally going to be revealed!"

"..."

Jiang Zhe glanced at the scrolling bullet comments on his laptop screen, then looked at the twenty-plus pairs of expectant eyes in front of him.

Professor Chen Runzhi, Academician Zhang, Ouyang Baili, Old Wu, Lin Chen, and others—everyone's face was filled with enthusiasm.

He smiled helplessly, "Since that's the case, I'll satisfy everyone."

The living room instantly fell silent, and everyone sat up straight.

"This actually involves—group consciousness."

Jiang Zhe's gaze fell onto the courtyard outside the window, as if he were recalling something from a long time ago.

"When I was a child, my parents weren't home."

"We hadn't moved into the old residential complex yet; it was a two-story building. Behind that old house was a locust tree, and a hornet's nest hung from it."

"There was a colony of ants at the foot of the wall, and I would squat there watching them for an entire afternoon."

"I was thinking about a question at the time: why do so many ants listen to the queen?"

"Why do so many bees listen to the queen bee?"

"They don't have mobile phones, walkie-talkies, or meetings to vote; yet they are in step and have a clear division of labor, just like a single entity."

"Later, when I went to school, I studied biology and chemistry, and only then did I learn about pheromones, ectohormones, and group regulation."

"Even so, the question in my mind still wasn't solved; instead, it became even bigger—if pheromones are chemical signals, then what would human group signals be? Do humans have group signals?"

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhe withdrew his gaze and let it fall on Guan Jingming.

"Back then, I was thinking, do we humans have a group consciousness?"

"Of course, I didn't know about Jung at the time; I only learned later that he had proposed the concept of the collective unconscious and group consciousness."

"But before I discovered him, I had already been thinking about it myself."

"In past lectures, I've mentioned something similar to Xiaoyu—Telepathy, the Telepathy between mother and daughter, or mother and son; besides maternal Quantum Entanglement, one can actually approach it from Jung's collective unconscious to get a pretty good answer."

As he told this, his expression froze slightly, and he changed the subject.

"Until I noticed a very interesting psychological phenomenon: yawning."

Academician Zhang below was a bit confused, "Yawning, what does that have to do with group consciousness?"

Jiang Zhe nodded slightly, looked at Academician Zhang, and then scanned the whole room, "Have you all noticed that yawning is contagious, and that even seeing the word 'yawn' makes you want to yawn?"

Just as he finished speaking, Professor Ouyang and Old Wu in the living room opened their mouths unconsciously, realized what was happening, and closed them immediately.

At this moment, the viewers were unsettled again.

"Damn, I just yawned!"

"Me too, seeing 'yawn' and it just happened!"

"Bro, you did that on purpose, didn't you!"

"..."

Jiang Zhe continued to explain: "Later I learned that the scientific explanation for yawning is mirror neurons and empathy."

"When you see someone else yawn, your mirror neurons are activated, your brain simulates that action, and so you yawn too."

"This shows that you have empathy and can perceive the mental state of others."

"But I wasn't satisfied with this explanation."

"Until I read some neuroscience materials and reached a subversive conclusion!"

The breathing of everyone in the living room became much lighter; could there be another explanation?

"Yawning isn't contagious; it's synchronization."

"You aren't catching a yawn; your consciousness is aligning with another person's consciousness."

"A yawn is a reboot signal for the brain; just as a computer needs to reboot, the brain also needs synchronization."

"When you see someone else yawn, your brain is saying: 'It's time for us to synchronize!'"

He paused for a few seconds and scanned the room with a serious expression.

"Later I discovered that humans are not independent individuals; rather, they are nodes of a group consciousness."

"A yawn is that node where the group consciousness is calibrating itself."

"This answer perfectly fits the integrated [Collective Unconscious]!"

The moment these words fell, the two Professor Hans in the living room gasped.

"So!"

Jiang Zhe narrowed his eyes, his tone becoming increasingly serious, "Since humans have a group consciousness, then, do computers also have a group consciousness?"

"Later, when I started getting into physics, I discovered that by continuously combining small stones, one could form a [Stone Computer]."

"Finally, I discovered a truth!"

"When enough computers are connected together, when their data streams are dense enough and synchronized enough—could they also generate a group consciousness?"

"Thus, if 1.4 billion people generate information interaction simultaneously, naturally, the xia nation consciousness, or the manifestation of national destiny, will emerge; that is exactly how my xia nation consciousness came to be."

As he finished speaking, he smiled slightly, and every professor in the room had a look of astonishment on their face.

In his previous life, this was exactly how he had deduced it.

For a true think tank, a great philosophy is hidden behind a simple daily phenomenon!

In the living room, there was silence for a full ten seconds or more.

Guan Jingming sat on the sofa, completely stunned.

He leaned forward slightly, as if he had heard something incredible, and stared fixedly at Jiang Zhe for several seconds.

Li Mo sat to one side, his expression identical.

After they entered the computer science industry, they studied so many complex algorithms, neural networks, and deep learning—never had anyone thought about it from this angle.

From watching ants and bees, to yawning, to group consciousness, to stone computers, and finally to the xia nation consciousness?

This line of thinking was simple to the point of being outrageous, yet profound enough to make one feel ashamed!

After a long time, Guan Jingming finally spoke, "So, the xia nation consciousness wasn't derived by you from computer science; but rather, you saw it from biology, psychology, physics... and even from daily life?"

Jiang Zhe nodded gently.

"So this is what a genius is like?" Guan Jingming shook his head in disbelief: "We in computer science are too obsessed with code, forgetting that there is something bigger beyond the code."

"Sure enough, hard work is not worth mentioning in the face of talent!"

Ouyang Baili looked at Old Wu beside him, "He has a thinking span that spans centuries; I've done physics my whole life, and I've never thought of using yawning to explain group consciousness."

Old Wu nodded, his face full of complexity, "Perhaps this is genius, true genius!"

Academician Zhang, sitting on the front sofa, took a deep breath, "I study geology, I study stones; stones don't yawn, but I do. I never thought that such logic was hidden behind yawning."

"Sure enough, the Great Dao is simple, the Great Dao is simple indeed!"

Meanwhile, Zheng Ming in the back row couldn't help but gulp, looking at Celestial Master Zhang beside him.

Celestial Master Zhang, however, smiled and said: "Brother Zheng, what do you have to compare with him now?"

"He can span multiple disciplines from a single life phenomenon; he is simply a world-class genius, and many frontier things are discovered by geniuses from life, imagination, and even dreams."

"Furthermore, as he said, [Human inspiration comes from the akashic records]; perhaps his antenna is just more powerful and longer than yours or mine, and his signal is better!"

"This is truly simplifying the complex, the Great Dao is simple!"

As he finished speaking, Zheng Ming took a deep breath, looked at Jiang Zhe for the first time, and said, "Awesome!"

Just then, the viewers also recovered from their astonishment and shock.

"Holy crap!"

"Yawning = group consciousness calibration; I'm impressed by this imagination!"

"So we humans aren't independent individuals; are we really just nodes of a collective, a group consciousness?"

"This sentence has given me goosebumps all day!"

"Genius, this is genius, going from little ants to the xia nation consciousness!"

"Let me count, how many disciplines has he crossed? Biology, psychology, neuroscience, computer science, physics, mathematics... damn, our bro has mastered them all!"

"I'm a computer science student, and now I'm kneeling."

"I'm a psychology student, and I'm kneeling too."

"I'm kneeling regardless of what I study!"

"Bro, you're not human; you're a god!"

"..."

Inside the room and on the internet, the discussion was heated and went on endlessly.

Watching the exclamations constantly coming from the living room, Xiaoyu, standing at the back of the crowd, had a face full of pride.

She didn't expect that her brother could remain calm in the face of this group of top-tier bigwigs; he didn't even need to think.

So proud~