"According to the results of this experiment, when the brain operates at 3.2-3.5 times speed, it generates excessive heat, leading to overheating and oxygen deprivation. The heart rate also increases accordingly, causing some operational issues. If this continues, a large number of neurons will prematurely age and die, and if these problems are allowed to expand, it will result in catastrophic consequences."

"... Premature aging, brain strokes, memory loss, high blood pressure, or drastic personality changes, all these are possible."

This is the nature of the neuronal brain; no matter how much it's modified, it cannot break through the limits.

The professor continued, "If bionic modifications are made, it might slightly raise the limit... but the main restriction is still the neuronal structure. We cannot endlessly increase the thinking speed of the neuronal brain; we would have to completely overhaul it, achieve silicon-based modification, and even alter the thoughts to reach higher thinking speeds."

After a pause, Yamamoto Ichiro interjected, "Listen to me, everyone. If we completely abandon the physical limitations in reality and disregard the neuronal brain's restrictions, and conduct the entire experiment in the Virtual World, I believe that the thinking pattern of humans, reaching five times speed, is already a limit, any faster would collapse."

"That's the limit."

Zhang Yuan nodded and sighed, the experimental results were roughly as predicted.

In the Virtual World, various parameters can be freely set, and factors like heart rate and blood pressure won't cause the experiment to fail. Therefore, the experimental results will be slightly better than in reality.

The greatest limitation, however, is instead the human thinking pattern; five times is the limit, and this data is far from satisfactory for humans.

In the later stages of the experiment, Zhang Yuan's mind was flooded with a plethora of miscellaneous thoughts, making it difficult to concentrate on thinking. One part of the reason was physiological limitations, and another part was related to the human thinking pattern.

The less pure the thinking, the more distractions there are, and the worse the effect of thought acceleration.

For someone like him, it was already quite decent. Some people would frequently get distracted during work, thinking about other things like food, the opposite sex, entertainment, etc. Such distractions are actually a form of the brain's lazy instinct, feeling a bit tired and thus getting distracted, a habit that cannot be changed.

Once thought acceleration kicks in, the number of distractions per unit of time increases, making it impossible to continue working.

In contrast to humans, naturally, is the Alliance's Half-sphere Civilization.

Regarding the Half-sphere people's acceleration experiments, in a fully virtual world environment, the entire thought process could reach two hundred times speed without collapsing!

One is five times, and the other is two hundred times, and it is obvious to anyone the disparity between them.

This disparity leaves all the workers with a heavy heart. What does two hundred times speed mean? Almost omnipotence! Two hundred times the output!

This is the benefit of modified thinking.

After summarizing the experiment report, everyone sighed and packed up their things, leaving the laboratory.

Yamamoto stood nearby and said, "Currently, the Half-sphere Civilization can achieve a thought speed of two hundred times, yet they still haven't reached the expected results..."

"They are currently sorting out some potentially conflicting points in the memory template. If these conflicts can be resolved, after the next update of the memory template, achieving higher speeds like five hundred times, or even a thousand times, is possible."

"Of course, limited by the physical body and the neuronal brain in reality, their normal thought speed can only reach 2-3 times... but this is already a good result. After this, the neuronal brain still has to be abandoned."

"After thought acceleration, there were slight changes in their entire societal behavior patterns, their daily routines altered, with slightly longer rest times each day, and some traditional video games discarded. The whole person's actions are like in fast-forward..."

Zhang Yuan remained silent and did not speak; he had observed the experimental zone of the Half-sphere Civilization before.

These Half-sphere people in the experimental state were completely different from their normal state. The entire pace was like being fast-forwarded, even when playing Mahjong, it was crackling at double the original speed...

However, the bionic bodies of the Half-sphere Civilization could withstand the strains, enabling their speed to increase to double the original.

But, if in the future their speed increases to ten times, or even two hundred times, even bionic bodies could not accelerate to several hundred times, so the entire movement pattern would still need to be changed...

This is just their behavior model at two times speed, far from the final endpoint.

He could hardly imagine what it would be like for humans to have true light-speed thinking... perhaps like the Ji Haman Civilization encountered by the Dyson Sphere, seeming dazed like robots, yet actually thinking at light-speed in their minds, making the external movement not as important.

"By the way, is the compilation of the movement module complete?"

"Of course it's completed, without too much difficulty. But this module can only be used after the thought modifications have been made, and we've never experimented with it."

Zhang Yuan gazed into the distance, the starry sky under Curvature Navigation was almost pitch black, and he said with a hint of profundity, "The next phase of the experiment is finally about to begin."

...

One morning after the experiment ended, Zhang Yuan got up early to attend the new session of the Scientific Council. Due to the explosive progress of the Half-sphere Civilization in recent years, the internal pressure within the New Human Civilization was immense.

This external expression was visible to anyone, some of the new generation of the Half-sphere Civilization was born with 2000 years of work experience, much like the Saints of the past. Additionally, a significant portion of their people have modified their thinking and used the 2 times thought acceleration technology.

This way, the work output per unit time and unit population has already surpassed humanity!

What is even more alarming is that this current state is almost the limit for humans, but the Half-sphere Civilization has not yet exerted its full strength... they can continue to progress in the future, even accelerating thoughts to ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times!

The Unreal Laboratory is currently helping the Half-sphere Civilization upgrade from neuronal brains to bio-brains with graphene and Carbon Nanotube as cores, and there have already been a few successful cases in this area!

Even the general public has begun to push the management to enact changes at the level of public opinion.

Of course, the average people speaking out is very simple; they see the problem but don't know how to solve it. In short, their desire for change is an admirable point.

Therefore, both private individuals and the official high-level are brewing a great reform.

This step, no matter what, is one that humans must take!

We can't delay anymore!

"... Currently, the advanced experimental technologies of the Half-sphere Civilization are all provided by us. With large-scale experimentation, the prerequisite technologies like thought modification, thought acceleration, and consciousness upload have matured. The main issue still lies in how to modify the thinking..."

Zhang Yuan stood on the stage, listing a series of data, and released the latest research reports from the past few years.

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