Dreamscape Treasure
Little Apple's dream had ended long ago, Xiang Kun was still sitting in his computer chair, motionless, his eyes fixed straight ahead. He wasn't daydreaming, but rather deep in thought, with a hint of excitement and anticipation in them.
He gave the Minion Wooden Carving to Little Apple simply because he wanted to use the "Emotional Injection" function of the item to guide Little Apple to have some happy dreams and add some spice to her life.
But what was unexpected was that after "observing" Little Apple's dream once, the one who received the most help and benefited the most was Xiang Kun himself.
He now has a kind of epiphany he had when he first encountered a new subject and suddenly realized that his understanding of certain issues was too simplistic and superficial.
When Xiang Kun first sensed Little Apple's emotions and dreams, he felt that he didn't "see" anything. There was nothing in front of him, no pictures in the dream, only various sounds, such as the two male voices that were telling a crosstalk.
Considering that Little Apple was born completely blind, it's not surprising that such a dream would occur.
But not long after, Xiang Kun suddenly realized that he wasn't completely unable to "see" anything; he could vaguely sense the "forms" of the two "people" who were performing crosstalk.
This kind of "seeing" is not visual observation, but rather constructing a cognitive structure in the mind. You know what is there and roughly what it looks like.
This structure is quite different from the three-dimensional geometric structures we usually see. It is somewhat like an illusory combination of points and lines, or an "array" of countless small points with uneven density.
Then Xiang Kun immediately realized that the two "people" performing crosstalk were actually two "Minions," and both of them had the same appearance as the Minion he had given to Little Apple.
Of course, these two Minions are not the same as the Minions Xiang Kun saw in reality. They have been simplified in many details, and if they were "concrete," most people in reality would not be able to recognize what they are. It was only because Xiang Kun was able to sense the emotions in Little Apple's dream and share the "perception" with her that he was able to instantly realize that these were the wooden Minion carvings he had given her.
Xiang Kun recalled that after Little Apple and her father left, he found several articles online about congenitally blind people. These articles mentioned that blind people, especially those who are born blind, tend to distinguish and judge things by their topological structure when they try to understand them.
Topology is a method of abstracting entities into "points" that are independent of their size and shape, and the lines connecting entities into "lines", and then representing the relationships between these points and lines in the form of a graph.
For example, under certain conditions, a cup with one handle is topologically equivalent to a donut, but not to a cup without handles.
Of course, this doesn't mean that blind people can't distinguish between a donut and a cup with handles; rather, it means that in their cognitive process, they tend to focus more on the structural features of these objects.
Just like how an ordinary person judges two people by sight, A is beautiful and B is ugly, but after touching them, a blind person might perceive that the two people actually look quite similar, with equivalent topological structures. And because B's skin is better, the blind person might even perceive B as more "beautiful".
The Minions that Xiang Kun "saw" in Little Apple's dream, who were telling jokes, were not concrete images, but rather a more complex form, similar to a topological structure.
These structures and forms, besides stemming from Little Apple's understanding built upon touching the Minion Wooden Carving, also include many previously heard Minion voices from "Despicable Me," which were then added through emotional imagination.
Of course, the part she imagined is quite different from the actual image of the Minions.
This non-visual visual perception, this unique perspective on structure, allowed Xiang Kun to find a new way of understanding. He almost immediately recreated the process of sculpting the Minion in his mind, then revised and integrated several steps, figuring out how to complete the sculpting more efficiently and how to arrange the order of the cuts to achieve the desired effect.
Beyond just perceiving differences in object structure, Xiang Kun Little Apple's dream in terms of sound.
He originally thought that even if Little Apple had developed a more advanced hearing than ordinary people because she was blind from childhood, she was definitely not as good as him, a "vampire" who had been guided in the direction of mutation and evolution through targeted training.
Indeed, Xiang Kun could hear far more details in the sounds than Little Apple; their hearing abilities were several levels apart.
But through Little Apple's dream, Xiang Kun suddenly discovered many things that he had never noticed or understood even if he had heard them before.
Those things are difficult to describe directly in words, or rather, they are caused by the fundamental difference between Little Apple's cognitive and perceptual abilities and Xiang Kun's.
The details of those sounds allowed Little Apple to immediately form many intuitive judgments, but to Xiang Kun, they were just a bunch of more detailed, fragmented data—he could only discover that the content could be judged so intuitively through his dream.
This feeling made Xiang Kun feel like he was a silly AI that could only grab keywords to "fill in the slots" and search databases and analyze big data.
What the Little Apple brings is an abstract understanding of things that seems to originate from the depths of human consciousness. This understanding is not fixed and is not universal, but it is more efficient and special.
It's like having two girls, and at a glance, you can immediately tell which one is prettier. From a visual analysis perspective, they'll talk about the girl's facial structure, proportions, symmetry of her left and right faces, face shape, muscles, expressions, and all sorts of data and details. But when you actually see that girl, you simply feel—she's beautiful.
However, if it were someone else, their opinion would likely differ from yours, or even from that of most other people. They would probably think the other girl is prettier and be very certain of their judgment.
When Little Apple and Xiang Kun discussed the meaning of different bird calls and songs, they analyzed the characteristics of these calls together, such as whether they were rapid or sharp, the environment at the time, and the bird's state. This is how they were able to communicate. It's like when you tell your companion that the girl who walked by was beautiful, you have to say that she has beautiful eyebrows, a small mouth, big eyes, dimples, and a tall and slender figure. Only then can you have something to discuss.
But in reality, through Little Apple's perception in the dream, Xiang Kun discovered that he could also hear the details of the sounds that Little Apple used to judge the emotions and intentions of birds' calls, and even hear them more and more clearly. But in reality, he was unable to make judgments based on those sounds before.
After his sensory abilities surged and his brain's ability to process relevant data also mutated and evolved, his judgments about various things were based on comparisons of big data, the establishment and summarization of experience. For example, he would use extensive observation to determine the meaning expressed by "Gold Glitter's " various postures, movements and calls, and then inversely infer its emotions and intentions through these behaviors.
In essence, he didn't truly "understand" "Gold Glitter," nor did he truly "know" the canary.
If you don't perceive Little Apple's dream, don't hear those chirping sounds in the dream, and don't feel that contrasting difference.
Even if Xiang Kun were to evolve his hearing a hundred times stronger and spend several more years with "Gold Glitter," he still wouldn't be able to recognize or acquire that way of judging sounds.
This may be because Xiang Kun's hearing is extremely developed, and he has practiced blindfolded during training. He can even perform certain activities by relying solely on his hearing without relying on his vision.
Ultimately, from birth, he has primarily relied on his sense of sight. Even now, when he uses hearing to judge distances and locations, his brain still uses visual aids to assist in the process.
Little Apple is different. From birth, she mainly relies on hearing to "cognize" and "perceive" the world. Hearing is her primary sensory organ, and sound is her primary way of constructing the world.
Therefore, her way of perceiving the world is fundamentally different from Xiang Kun's in a sense.
This difference is something she simply cannot describe or convey through language.
Even if it were described, other people's brain structures would be completely unable to understand or reproduce it.
Just like knowing the moves of martial arts but lacking the corresponding mental techniques and internal strength, one cannot unleash their full power.
This dream opened a new door for Xiang Kun, allowing him to discover a way to achieve cognitive breakthroughs based on his existing sensory abilities!
Now, when he recalls the chirping of "Gold Glitter" that he heard before, he immediately finds certain details, certain things that allow him to directly experience "Gold Glitter's" emotions. This experience is even deeper than Little Apple's experience in the dream, because he actually heard far more details in the sound than Little Apple, and he understands "Gold Glitter" much better.
Therefore, it's not that his previous data collection and "database"-style perception training methods were wrong. It's the large amount of sensory information he collected and the "database" he built that makes it easier and more efficient for him to use the cognitive and judgment methods of Little Apple now.
For Xiang Kun, Little Apple's dream was like a treasure trove.
He figured he'd probably have to "bother" and "learn" in Little Apple's dreams more often from now on, but he'd test the waters on WeChat tomorrow to see how she'd feel after waking up from the dream of listening to Minions tell jokes.
Xiang Kun then turned his gaze to the twelve little yellow men that hadn't been polished much. After yesterday's blood-drinking, Xiang Kun had already established an "Emotional Injection" connection with these twelve "little yellow men".
But yesterday's blood-drinking actually took some unexpected turns that Xiang Kun hadn't anticipated.
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