After witnessing Eve enter the tent to rest, Kayal began to cast a spell to create a barrier.
An invisible and intangible barrier unfolds outwards from the camp, surrounding the camp area.
This barrier magic has two functions: concealing aura and detecting intruders. Creatures outside the barrier cannot sense the existence of life inside, while any creature that passes through the barrier will be detected by the caster.
It's a very useful spell, and the cost isn't too high if you're only covering the area near the camp.
This is not a class skill; it is a magic trick created by a mage who studied magic in the past. The learning threshold is extremely low, and all that is needed to cast it is magic power. Anyone of any class can learn it.
Having read the memories of many adventurers of different magic classes, Kayal naturally understood this magic as well. Moreover, due to the special skill that increases MP recovery rate, the power consumption is now basically equal to the recovery power, which is equivalent to almost no magic consumption.
To allow Eve to rest properly, and to allow himself to focus more on how to address the potential impact of memory on personality, Kyal believed it was necessary to perform such a barrier magic.
It's now winter, and the weather is a bit chilly. Although Kyal is protected by Nen and isn't afraid of the cold, sitting by the campfire would undoubtedly be more comfortable.
Sitting by the campfire in the camp, looking at the bright yellow flames, Kyal fell into deep thought.
How can we address the impact of these memories on personality?
First, we need to understand the true nature of memory.
The essence of memory is information, external information stored in the brain, which is preserved in the brain through the four stages of neural circuits.
Information acquired through the sensory system is stored in the sensory areas of the brain for a very short time. If the information is processed and categorized at this point, it will form a new impression and move to the next stage. This stage is formed by the continuous stimulation of the hippocampal neural circuit network in the brain, that is, the synaptic binding is continuously enhanced for a long time, which prolongs the retention time of the information. This stage is also called first-level memory.
Information that remains in the first level of memory for a long time will enter the second level of memory. The retention of information at this stage may be related to protein synthesis. If our information is frequently used, it will not be forgotten, but will jump to the next level.
In the third level of memory, a neural circuit network is formed. The more new synapses are connected in the brain, the more firmly the memory is considered to be stored in the brain.
Personality-based thinking is built on memory, and its essence is the analysis and processing of existing information and intelligence.
There is no doubt that memories influence one's thinking. For example, if you remember someone as a nemesis, you will definitely feel disgusted when you meet them.
It could even be said that personality is composed of memories.
Kyal's "imitation" is essentially about reading and storing memory information from other people's brains and then using it. Whether it is other people's memory information or one's own memory information, it is essentially the same.
If you don't want other people's memories to influence the formation of your own personality's memory information, you'll become a madman with extremely chaotic thought processes and values.
Then the only option is to separate them, create other personalities, and make oneself a person with dissociative identity disorder.
One personality versus multiple personalities. Kyal can only barely gain the upper hand now by relying on his strong willpower. However, as more and more people are being restored and more and more memories are being copied, he will eventually be unable to suppress them.
Deleting memories using recovery magic is very difficult. To perform such a precise operation requires further leveling up and increasing proficiency. Moreover, if the memory is deleted, the knowledge in that person's memory will no longer be usable.
Organizing his knowledge and insights on memory, Kyal raised a question based on his own situation.
Do memories really only exist in the brain?
If it truly only exists in the brain, then why would he, whose soul has traveled back in time, still have his previous memories?
Therefore, the answer is quite obvious.
The soul can also store memories.
Because the soul stores the original memories, and the soul always controls the body, at least Kyal can still clearly recognize his identity as Chen Hao.
New questions arise simultaneously with new answers.
Does the soul really exist?
At least, because of his highly unscientific and idealistic Nen abilities, as well as his illogical magical powers, Kayal believed that souls truly existed.
According to materialist theory, existence is rational. As long as something exists, it can be observed. As long as it can be observed, it can be interfered with. As long as it can be interfered with, it can be controlled.
However, with his current perception system, he is not able to observe the soul. Since he cannot observe it, how can he intervene?
It doesn't matter. If the materialist approach doesn't work, then we'll use the idealist approach.
For example, regarding the pollution and influence of others' memories on one's own personality, since it cannot be solved through the brain using scientific and materialistic methods, then it can be solved through the soul using metaphysical and idealistic methods.
Materialism and idealism are two fundamentally opposed philosophies. The fundamental difference between them lies in whether or not they acknowledge that the origin of the world is matter and whether or not matter determines consciousness.
Materialism asserts that matter is primary and spirit is secondary; the origin of the world is matter, and spirit is a product and reflection of matter.
Idealism holds that consciousness is the primary nature of the world, matter is the secondary nature of the world, and that spirit is superior to matter.
Before his transmigration, Kyal was undoubtedly a materialist, but after experiencing supernatural phenomena such as soul transmigration, system binding, and otherworldly magic, he gradually began to transform into an idealist.
Observing souls, making contact with souls—these are currently outside the scope of his understanding of magic.
But it doesn't matter, Kyal thought, he might be able to do it through his extremely idealistic and omnipotent Nen ability.
The soul undoubtedly exists within one's own body; once its location is determined, contact is no longer just a pipe dream.
In the countless novels I read before transmigrating, there was a general consensus that the soul resides in the head.
So, will we then use our Nen abilities to sense the brain, search for traces of the soul, and develop a means to sense the soul?
Perhaps it doesn't have to be that complicated. I can just do what they do in novels, like cultivating the soul. I only need to visualize...
I think I can give it a try...
Visualization is a method of visualizing various fixed patterns and images through meditation, thereby concentrating one's own consciousness and soul power to refine and strengthen one's soul power.
This setting, used in countless novels, is basically for cultivating soul power.
Kyal thought he should give it a try, and so he did.
He closed his eyes, and in the darkness, his consciousness began to gradually sink.
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