December 15. Another report.
The new campus of Chenghuang Talented School was nearing completion and handover. The first batch of three thousand children had completed their information verification. Zhao Yiyi, the former director of Alien Zoo, would take charge of Chenghuang Talented School. At present, she and the foundation were working with remarkable efficiency, and the first batch of prodigies was expected to arrive at the school ahead of schedule, around New Year's Day.
The average age of this batch of prodigies was that of fourth-grade elementary school students. After coming to study, they would still need to spend some time learning Mandarin. Completing the elementary, middle, and high school curricula, along with the basic university curriculum, would take at least five years. If the Consciousness Mainframe project dragged on for more than five years, they could join the research and development work later on. If the Consciousness Mainframe project was fortunately completed ahead of schedule, they would be assigned to other projects.
The current research situation remained unclear. In fact, as we slowly moved forward, more and more problems were being exposed.
The first major problem was the information-compression challenge of the Consciousness Mainframe.
Each human eye had six million cone cells, inputting approximately 1.6 billion bits of information into the brain every second. At the same time, the ears, skin, taste buds, and nose were constantly sending massive amounts of information to the brain as well.
But the brain's information-processing speed was only around ten bits per second—a difference of over a hundred million times.
Academia had a concept called the outer brain and inner brain. The outer brain received 1.6 billion bits of sensory signals, compressed them by a factor of hundreds of millions, formed a small amount of high-level information, and submitted it to the inner