Chapter 827 A Creature Perfectly Adapted to This World
"You mean, the Untouchables don't have the ability to create?" Hughes looked at Chloe in front of him and blinked.
"right! "
Hughes couldn't help but laugh. He had only sent Chloe to the assembly plant a short while ago, and Chloe had already returned.
He was just reviewing reports in his office when he suddenly heard a dull knock on the door. He opened the door but didn't see anyone.
It wasn't until I heard the sound beneath my feet that I saw Chloe's diary bouncing on the ground like a salted fish that had come ashore.
"It must have been tough for you to have hopped all the way here, but you were a bit too harsh on them. Although the Untouchables have indeed learned a lot, they haven't been here long, and they haven't mastered this knowledge in a very short time. How could they produce research results so quickly?"
"No, it's not research results, it's that they have absolutely no ability to innovate!" Chloe started jumping around on the table anxiously again, shaking so much that he couldn't even see the words on the diary.
"No innovative ability whatsoever?" Hughes paused, his indifference fading as he looked seriously at the diary before him.
Although Chloe's pursuit of knowledge is somewhat extreme, she is not reckless. If she said something like that, she is probably already very certain.
"When I first started working with Xiaobu, I just felt something was off. She was perfect at executing my requests, whether it was understanding my ideas or doing the actual work; she was very capable. But if I tried to discuss some new ideas with her, she would look completely lost."
"I didn't realize it at the time."
"But later, when she was asked to make some improvements on her own, well..."
"I discovered she couldn't make any improvements. It's hard to describe the feeling; she could apply knowledge, but she couldn't innovate!"
"For example, I designed a very complex system, and she could instantly grasp the entire system's working principle. But if I asked her to make adjustments, she couldn't do it. It's not that she couldn't come up with a good solution; it's that she couldn't make even the slightest change!"
"It's not just her, all the Untouchables are like this." Chloe's handwriting trembled slightly. "I... I gathered many people and had them watch together, but no one could come up with anything innovative."
"Could it be that they're just not used to using knowledge?" Hughes stroked his chin, not believing his own words, but the inability to innovate was too shocking.
"No. I just grabbed an alarm clock, put a light bulb, a candle, and a glow-in-the-dark bead next to it, and then asked them—"
Is there any way to make this alarm clock so that people can see the time at night?
They were all gathered there, staring at the alarm clock and a pile of lighting equipment beside it, racking their brains, but they just couldn't come up with a solution.
"I asked again if these things could provide light."
They nodded.
"How do I set the alarm clock to light up?"
Shaking his head.
"They learned the knowledge and could apply it, but they just couldn't make any innovative moves!" Chloe wrote this sentence with trembling hands.
Hughes stood up from his chair. Although it was daytime, he felt a chill run down his spine.
This situation is truly bizarre.
"Is everyone like this?"
"Yes, I brought in all the untouchables, and not one of them could do it. I even questioned them carefully; it seems they can only construct ideas within their existing knowledge base. Once it involves association, their thinking seems to be cut off."
"It sounds like a thought imprint."
"What is the 'ideological imprint'?"
"Being forcibly implanted with a certain ideology means that those who cannot access it are unable to make innovative associations."
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"Chloe, have you ever heard of such a thing? Some kind of ritual? The influence of supernatural forces? Some kind of curse?"
"No, at least not to my knowledge." Chloe hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively, "The Untouchables claim to be under some kind of curse, is that right?"
“Yes, that’s true, but I isolated and observed them for a long time and there was absolutely no sign of the curse. I also did animal experiments, and the coyotes that came into contact with them didn’t change at all, so I lifted the isolation.” Hughes paced around the room. “I always thought the curse referred to their excessively fast learning speed.”
"Now it seems, is it that innovation is impossible?"
"Perhaps, but this requires further verification. Thinking about it carefully, it's a bit strange. How can there be a curse that prevents others from innovating? What's the point?"
Hughes shook his head.
"Chloe, you continue teaching them, and then...Chloe?"
Chloe suddenly stopped on the table, motionless, and no new words appeared in the diary.
Hughes blinked, somewhat puzzled, and walked over to tug at the pages, but there was no reaction.
"Connor! Call Nini and Monica, Chloe seems to be in trouble!"
Upon hearing those two names, Chloe's diary trembled, and words appeared again: "Wait, I'm fine. Don't call those two legends over!"
"What's wrong with you? You scared me! I thought you were broken."
"I'm fine. I just suddenly thought of something. Why did you previously think that learning too fast was a curse?"
"There are always risks in pursuing knowledge, you're like a moth drawn to a flame, how could you not know that?" Hughes asked, somewhat puzzled. "Take cognitive interference, for example, it's very easy... very easy."
Hughes' eyes suddenly widened, and he froze on the spot.
He felt as if a bolt of lightning had flashed across the sky, and suddenly something came to mind.
"If innovation is impossible, then cognitive interference will not occur!"
Cognitive interference only occurs when erroneous cognitions are generated. For example, if workers associate soap with food and then believe that soap is edible, and enough workers firmly believe this, it will indeed interfere with reality.
Those who cannot access soap will not have any extra associations when they see it; their ability to make associations is directly cut off.
They will only develop an understanding of soap after being told, "Soap is a cleaning product and you can't eat it."
This is almost a perfect way to bypass cognitive interference!
Hughes suddenly frowned: "I remember they were also very good at making things. How did they manage to do it without the ability to make connections?"
"That's the second thing I wanted to say." Chloe's handwriting became increasingly hurried and began to show signs of being messy.
"These untouchables, when they create things, don't make any associations! They don't know the principles behind them at all; they just want to do it and they can make it!"
It's like an instinct etched into your body!
(End of this chapter)
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