The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 582

Technical Path for the Photographic Memory Skill

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Yue Yuan did not participate in the Research Team's exploration of this space boundary. He continued to live on the Lyra and was involved in the construction project of the New Particle Collider.

Of course, he wasn't just sailing around on Engineering Ship to carry out construction. As the leader of the civilization, he had his responsibilities. The New Particle Collider project was a colossal project for the entire civilization, a project that required the combined efforts of the entire civilization, plus the Crimson Flame Civilization, whose individual life forms outnumbered humans by a hundred times. It was a project that would last for over a thousand years, a project that required the resources of eight stars to support it.

It's easy to imagine how magnificent this project is.

Yue Yuan must remain firmly in the center, observing all strategies that are beneficial to the project, and not give any opportunity to opportunists.

Human beings are a group composed of individual lives. As the saying goes, "a large forest has all kinds of birds," and the same is true for humans. Today, the human population has reached tens of billions. Although there are no major problems overall, there are still some cunning and deceitful people.

These people don't resent humanity's success; they simply oppose the current human system. To achieve their political goals, they are even willing to betray the interests of all humanity. This task was originally handled by Zhu Pete, with Yue Yuan stationed there to better control these individuals.

Of course, the main task is to solve the various problems encountered in the construction of the New Particle Collider. With Yue Yuan there, many issues can be decided immediately, instead of a group of people holding meetings and arguing for years or decades without reaching a conclusion.

This one-man decision-making model can indeed greatly improve the construction efficiency of New Particle Collider, but it also has drawbacks. Yue Yuan is not a saint, and the decisions he makes at that moment may have loopholes and shortcomings.

However, with the support of the entire team, there weren't too many problems; at least, no one made a crazy decision to do something that would harm Human Civilization.

Another important point is that Yue Yuan always puts the interests of Human Civilization first. With him around, even if the Crimson Flame Civilization is included in the construction of the New Particle Collider, he will greatly limit the Crimson Flame Civilization's benefits in the project and always keep them in a subordinate position.

However, this might not be the case for some people. Among the new generation of humans, some have proposed the idea of further integration with the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Nair People, and the Kuntai People. This idea suggests that humans can use genetic modification to broaden the range of environmental adaptations for humans and other races, thereby achieving a level where several races can coexist in the same environment.

The sound was faint, but Yue Yuan took it very seriously.

Upon learning that people within humanity held such views and ideas, he immediately instructed the Propaganda Department to guide public opinion and allow it to suppress such thoughts.

Although there are several Alien Race in Human Civilization, they all have their own living Residential Spaceship. Each race lives on an independent Residential Spaceship and is under the unified leadership of humans. Yue Yuan thinks this is a good thing.

As for that dangerous idea of integration, it must be resolutely eliminated.

Because this idea has just emerged, Yue Yuan tentatively believes that some people have seen the possibility of its technological realization, which is why they have this idea. If this idea continues to evolve and become more active, he does not mind using drastic measures.

Dealing with this kind of thing is also part of Yue Yuan's daily work.

Since they set foot in the stars, humanity has developed over thousands of years. Although Yue Yuan has always held the position of leader in this group, he rarely participates in specific matters except in critical times. He understands his role very well, which is to ensure the stability of humanity's overall development.

Of course, he has always personally and firmly grasped the military aspect, and what does the military of the interstellar era rely on? Needless to say, it is science and technology, and humanity also uses science and technology bureaucracy as its basic system, which is why Yue Yuan has been working hard to improve his scientific literacy for so many years.

He wanted to integrate himself into the scientific community, rather than just being an officer who only knew how to command a fleet, but he found it increasingly difficult to learn scientific knowledge.

"I feel like my brain isn't working properly!" Yue Yuan remarked after attending a theoretical physics conference.

He is striving to improve himself, but humanity is also developing. Even at the current level of Level 3 Civilization), the various branches of knowledge involved constitute a vast and complex body of information.

If Yue Yuan is simply learning about the various branches of human knowledge from a popular science perspective, then he has no problem at all. But if he is aiming to reach a professional level like scientists in various fields, then that is very difficult.

Admittedly, Yue Yuan's long lifespan gave him ample time to learn, but the human brain is capable of forgetting things; it has a forgetting mechanism.

In fact, the legendary photographic Photographic Memory simply does not exist. This is the conclusion reached by scientists of the human brain region of Level 3 Civilization so far, or rather, the conclusion that has been held for thousands of years.

The most direct consequence of Photographic Memory is that it paralyzes the brain's information processing. This is obvious. Photographic Memory remember everything you see, including the information carried by every tiny action of your own in daily life, as well as the information of all the changes in the surrounding things, the information entropy is too large and too dense, which will of course paralyze the brain's information processing system.

Of course, if it's the kind of photographic Photographic Memory where you can choose to remember something, an event, or a piece of knowledge, that's a different story. This type of photographic Photographic Memory subjective control over a specific piece of information, while the others are handled by the brain's normal forgetting mechanism.

At the seminar, Yue Yuan expressed his feeling that his brain was not up to par and elaborated on the various difficulties he encountered in the process of learning different kinds of knowledge. Of course, he was not there to complain, but to propose possible directions for human brain research based on his own learning experience.

That is the direction of brain research to add the ability of humans to actively Photographic Memory.

This direction falls under the field of Life Science. After the conference, the Academy of Life Sciences had one more research project approved. It has to be said that the plan proposed by the leader was implemented quickly. Under normal circumstances, it would take at least several years from the idea being proposed to the approval of the research project.

Regarding the research direction proposed by Yue Yuan, experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence offered another solution. They felt that instead of pursuing research in the purely physical field of Life Science, which was still far from being realized, it would be better to directly take the human-machine integration route.

Humans now have mature Brain Chip technology. We only need to upgrade the human-computer interaction function from simply controlling devices through the network via the Brain Chip to enable the brain to read information from the chip.

This means upgrading the Brain Chip and using it as an external knowledge storage device for the brain.

This idea is good, but it's just as difficult as pure carbon-based brain modification because it requires synchronizing the database stored on the chip with the brain's thinking system. In other words, when humans think about things, they will also incorporate the knowledge stored on the chip into their "I think" system, rather than simply retrieving information.

If it's just about information retrieval, the search functions of books, mobile phones, and computers in the Earth Era can do that.

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