"The speed at which a living individual thinks is not solely related to the performance of its brain; it also has a considerable connection to the energy the organism can obtain."
"If the brain is viewed as a computer, it becomes easy to understand. Running a supercomputer requires consuming vast amounts of energy, and the prerequisite for that is the existence of such an energy source in the environment."
"So, on a planet completely covered in ice and snow, with extremely low temperatures, if life were to emerge and evolve brains, its thinking speed should generally be very slow. This is the result of natural selection. In regions where energy resources are scarce, evolving a brain that consumes the least energy is the most correct choice."
"Conversely, on an energy-rich celestial body like a star, once life appears and possesses brains, their thinking speed should make them super-lifeforms on the same level as photonic computers. Even if their biological nature means their performance cannot rival artificial photonic computers designed specifically for computation, they would only be slightly inferior."
"The difference between the two would probably be like that between an early mobile phone and the Sunway TaihuLight in Wuxi City..."
Huo Gu went on and on, analyzing what it had encountered earlier as though muttering in its sleep.
Once the analysis ended, it was followed by a long silence.
After a long while, Huo Gu finally began to complain in despair.
"What's the use of analyzing it now? Isn't it all just hindsight? If I had noticed sooner instead of focusing all my attention on that guy, or if I'd let the cell cluster in planetary orbit remain there, I wouldn't have ended up in this predicament."
Huo Gu was the collective consciousness of the entire cell population. If anything