"How so?" Jiang Yan Hai's face was full of curiosity.
"You know, with VR games, there's a problem when we use them. When the content being played comes rushing at us, our brains react to what we see. Even when we already know it's fake, we still react. That's our instincts at work," Professor Wu Min said.
"Mm." Jiang Yan Hai nodded. This was a person's neural reaction, or rather, a conditioned reflex. We might feel that human nerve transmission was fast, but in reality, it only traveled at twelve to one hundred and twenty meters per second.
Since humans were at most a little over two meters tall, all of our neural reactions could basically reach every part of the body in less than a second.
That was also one reason why shorter people tended to react faster and more nimbly than taller people.
But that was not absolute. Human neural reactions could be trained and accelerated through training.
However, this accelerated neural transmission gained through training could not be consciously controlled by the brain. In other words, this kind of neural transmission was what people called an instinctive reaction.
That was why many soldiers who had remained in dangerous situations for long periods might instinctively hurt someone if they were suddenly startled in a peaceful environment, or if someone abruptly appeared behind them.
Because those had already become their instincts. Their brains had not even reacted yet, but their bodies had already acted.
"We've now developed an entirely new material. Through certain special waveforms, it can deceive the human brain. Like instinctive reactions—our bodies seem to react before our brains do, but in truth, the brain is still directing everything. That is the subconscious."
"Like the VR movies from before, which deceived the human brain visually. But the