The knight in the big world of American TV series

Chapter 2368

Apocalypse has always been a mutant supremacist. He believes that mutants are the future of humanity, while other humans are merely human. The only reason he didn't categorize ordinary people as beasts is that mutants and ordinary people are indistinguishable! However, after arriving in modern society, Apocalypse changed his ways.

It's not that his thinking has changed.

As I've already said, he has always been a mutant supremacist.

All I can say is that he has become more cunning.

Back in the day, with such a small population in ancient Egypt, he still failed. If he continued with the methods from thousands of years ago in today's society, he was destined to fail as well.

As mentioned before, he lived for an extremely long time. Thousands of years ago, due to the limitations of how knowledge was disseminated, frankly, you couldn't expect him to learn things he didn't understand at all. But this doesn't mean that he really learned nothing over those thousand years.

Someone once proposed a hypothesis: what would happen if a person lived for a thousand years?
The mere thought of humans breaking the lifespan limit and living to a thousand years old is enough to send chills down your spine—after all, even living to a three-digit age is rare these days. However, the scientific community has indeed conducted some mind-blowing studies, such as the lifespan of some deep-sea creatures reaching four thousand years, and even seaweed cloning itself to live to ten thousand years old. While humans can't achieve this yet, let's indulge in a little speculation: if someone could truly live for a thousand years, would they become a "player with all skills unlocked" on Earth?
The most obvious advantage is their overwhelming interdisciplinary knowledge. While an average person might spend thirty years mastering a single field, a millennium-old being could easily study mathematics, physics, biology, philosophy, and other disciplines. Language learning alone would be incredibly diverse—mastering just one percent of the 7000+ existing languages ​​would allow them to easily navigate seventy different cultural spheres. Even more remarkable is their ability to witness the birth and demise of certain disciplines; for example, they might see 21st-century artificial intelligence theory become "ancient technology" in archaeological documents five hundred years later. This breadth of knowledge gained through such a vast temporal span is something short-lived species simply cannot match.

The most obvious advantage is their overwhelming interdisciplinary knowledge. While an average person might spend thirty years mastering a single field, a millennium-old being could easily study mathematics, physics, biology, philosophy, and other disciplines. Language learning alone would be incredibly diverse—mastering just one percent of the 7000+ existing languages ​​would allow them to easily navigate seventy different cultural spheres. Even more remarkable is their ability to witness the birth and demise of certain disciplines; for example, they might see 21st-century artificial intelligence theory become "ancient technology" in archaeological documents five hundred years later. This breadth of knowledge gained through such a vast temporal span is something short-lived species simply cannot match.

Observing social changes will become a passive skill for them. What ordinary people can only learn about dynastic changes through history books, they will see as firsthand "historical stories from their social circles." This God-like perspective will allow them to discern the patterns of civilization's rise and fall—for example, why a certain system cannot last more than three hundred years, or why a certain technology reappears every five hundred years. Even more interestingly, they may develop a unique "adaptability to the times," capable of carving characters in oracle bone script and skillfully operating brain-computer interfaces. This survival wisdom spanning millennia could definitely fill a book titled "Human User Manual."

Some skills that require time to develop will be mastered by them. Imagine a violin maker spending two hundred years honing his craft, creating a violin that would earn Paganini's praise; or a painter spending three centuries perfecting the art of light and shadow, directly redefining art history. These creators with exceptionally long lifespans might even establish "millennial art movements," such as painting realism for the first five hundred years, exploring abstraction for the next three hundred, and then embracing cyberpunk for the last two hundred—one person representing an entire history of art evolution.

Scientific experiments become an "extended standby mode" in their hands. Long-term observations that ordinary scientists might never see results in their lifetime are simply a matter of living a few more years to them. For example, a research project on changes in human behavior can trace from the Industrial Revolution to the era of interstellar colonization; such cross-century data, when strung together, would likely overwhelm the journal *Nature*. Even more remarkable is their ability to personally verify various hypotheses, such as spending two centuries practicing different educational methods or comparing Eastern and Western medical systems over five centuries—the depth of their research is simply extraordinarily high.

But living a long life isn't all good. The knowledge curse might turn them into "the loneliest encyclopedias." While those around them can't even keep up with internet jokes from thirty years ago, they remember popular memes from a thousand years ago. This sense of temporal dislocation could drive even the most socially adept person crazy. Even worse is the constant adaptation to civilizational gaps—just when they've gotten used to smartphones, three hundred years later humans switch to neural interfaces. This millennia-long "digital immigrant" lifestyle might just give rise to new types of mental illnesses.

Furthermore, without superhuman intellect, while they might become excellent scientists, they would have absolutely no way of researching cutting-edge technologies.

For example, if Apocalypse were to study those cutting-edge technological achievements, he probably wouldn't even be able to understand them. He could only start by learning the basics, and then move on to the next level. By the time he finally understood the cutting-edge technology, it might no longer be considered cutting-edge.

In short, while a person's wisdom can indeed be accumulated over time, without the wisdom and intellect of someone like Einstein, they would not have been able to create technologies that did not exist in the first place.

Moreover, no one can ever replace the power of a group!

The generation of knowledge from information is a crucial characteristic of human intelligence. However, the differences in intelligence among individuals are significant. Throughout history, intelligent people have invented tools, including chipped stone flakes, bows and arrows made from branches, fishing hooks, and spears crafted from sharpened sticks—all likely born from ingenious ideas. These ideas were then put into practice, becoming experience, and subsequently passed on as knowledge to others. This inherited experience is thus exchanged as knowledge. More people learn and internalize this knowledge, applying it to production and daily life, thereby improving their problem-solving abilities. The application of knowledge continuously enhances social productivity, making the transmission, development, and accumulation of knowledge vital social activities. The emergence and development of human civilization is almost entirely a process of knowledge generation, exchange, and accumulation. All of humanity's knowledge originates from the processing of direct information, although individual knowledge may largely stem from learning from the knowledge created by others. Even the individual's ability to extract information into knowledge comes from learning from predecessors. While the brain's intelligence is the material basis for knowledge generation, the human capacity for knowledge generation comes from acquired learning. Human infants who haven't undergone a learning process, or special beastmen raised by wild animals who haven't had the opportunity to learn human knowledge, will not possess the ability to extract knowledge. The intelligent ape Tarzan only appears in stories; he wouldn't even possess human language abilities. While some intelligent animals may exhibit highly effective behaviors, they will never develop the wisdom that humans cultivate through collective knowledge exchange and accumulation. As human society develops, more people learn about the world by learning from the knowledge and information imparted by others. Indirect knowledge has gradually become the primary source of human knowledge. Without learning from existing knowledge systems, the possibility of creating experience from direct information and developing it into knowledge exchange is increasingly slim. As knowledge accumulates, the formation of human knowledge is no longer something that intelligent individuals can accomplish alone; even scientists like Newton, who proposed great theories, had to stand on the shoulders of giants. Learning from accumulated human knowledge and cultivating intelligence and the ability to exchange knowledge are the foundation for generating new knowledge. In modern society, the formation of knowledge is increasingly becoming the work of a social collective (especially a large group of intelligent people known as the knowledge elite). Today, humans begin by learning knowledge, first understanding and digesting the knowledge exchanged by others, transforming it into their own experience. Only by being good at thinking and diligently absorbing existing knowledge can one contribute their personal knowledge to society as a whole. Innovative knowledge contributions are a particularly special achievement that only intelligent individuals who are adept at learning can accomplish.

For a long time, people have been particularly interested in how brilliant minds generate their ingenious ideas. This question still lacks a complete answer, and even common explanations seem far-fetched and difficult to accept. Although humanity has accumulated a vast amount of knowledge, much of which has been transformed into technology and directly into practical products, and science and technology seem to be so powerful that they appear omnipotent, and human knowledge seems to encompass everything around us, we actually know very little about how our own minds work, and almost nothing about the deeper mechanisms of thought. Some researchers have even preserved the brains of brilliant individuals (such as Einstein) in an attempt to discover their unique structure.

Human knowledge initially stemmed from information received directly, much of which was likely erroneous, and most was probably corrected by later knowledge. Perhaps the most famous historical error was the geocentric model. Indeed, direct observation revealed the intuitive observation that celestial bodies revolved overhead daily. For over a thousand years before the heliocentric model was proposed in the 16th century, the geocentric model was widely accepted. Some scholars even theorized this knowledge, creating numerous diagrams and written records, which were printed in beautiful books and still circulate today. However, some astute individuals, through further astronomical observation, obtained more accurate information and discovered that heliocentrism was more consistent with reality. The heliocentric model overturned the geocentric model, which had been believed for so long. At the time, some highly knowledgeable religious scholars combined this geocentric theory with their God-centered religious beliefs, using it as theoretical support for their religious doctrines. Therefore, the heliocentric model faced fierce suppression from the religious community, even resulting in extreme events such as the burning and imprisonment of scholars who proposed and supported it. Learning from these historical lessons, people have become more focused on ensuring the accuracy of knowledge and researching how to derive correct knowledge from information. Representative research findings include scientific methods and cognitive science. The complexity of the world, especially the complexity of the movement and changes of matter in the universe, and the complexity of the information carried by emitted signals, presents almost an infinite number of possibilities for us to consider. Therefore, absolutely correct knowledge may not exist. However, our fundamental purpose in understanding things is to be able to take appropriate responses to maintain the overall functioning of humanity. Therefore, within the scope that can achieve this purpose, knowledge can be considered correct. In other words, the correctness of knowledge should be conditionally limited. Knowledge that conforms to objective reality within a certain range can be considered correct knowledge. Of course, these limiting conditions are often gradually improved and developed in the process of knowledge application.

Even so, how to determine the correctness of knowledge? How can correct knowledge be generated? These remain questions that humanity is actively exploring. Many monographs on cognitive science discuss these issues. How does the human mind generate knowledge from information? This question requires exploring the workings of the most complex brain on Earth using intelligence itself, but it lacks a "mirror" to directly observe it. Therefore, exploring this question is extremely difficult.

Philosophers analyze the process of knowledge generation in the human brain from abstract philosophical principles. A prime example is Kant's *Critique of Pure Reason*, which argues that "human reason has a peculiar fate in a certain branch of its knowledge: it is troubled by problems it cannot escape; because these problems are posed to it by the very nature of reason itself, and it cannot answer them; because these problems are beyond the capabilities of human reason." The question remains: does knowledge originate from external information or is it subjectively generated in the mind? This is especially true in modern society where much of the information in people's minds comes from learning existing knowledge rather than from direct external information. This issue is also one of the focal points of the philosophical debate between idealism and materialism. Indeed, human knowledge should fundamentally come from external information received in various social activities. However, when people process existing (memory) information in their minds, they can generate some wonderful ideas and form new knowledge exchanges. The scientific community highly values ​​direct information from experiments; scientific conclusions all need to be based on data from practice. Yet, some scientific knowledge seems to have been gleaned from the minds of exceptionally intelligent scientists. As human society continues to expand, cooperation among individuals becomes increasingly close. The accumulation, exchange, and collective wisdom of human knowledge have become more important than individual intellectual development in the generation of knowledge. The generation of knowledge is increasingly becoming a social behavior. Philosophers' discussions of knowledge are profound, but their language can be extremely difficult. Most readers, faced with these obscure and difficult arguments, may shy away. There are many scholars and works that use such profound and difficult-to-read philosophical terminology to explore the thought processes involved in the generation of knowledge.

Biologists have also explored this from a biological perspective. While the nerve cells in the human brain are not fundamentally different from those in other animals, the human brain contains tens of billions of cells, and its structure includes a vast and rich cerebral cortex. The average adult brain weighs about 1400 grams and is composed of hundreds of billions of cells, with approximately 100 billion being neocortical cells. The sheer number of nerve cells and their extremely complex connections create the brain's spatial structure, which may be the material basis for intellectual activities. However, the complexity of its movement is not yet fully understood by humans. Therefore, it remains a long way off that artificial intelligence technology simulating the human brain can surpass human intelligence.

Psychology explores the secrets of brain activity by studying human mental processes. Cognitive neuroscience, a branch of psychology and neuroscience, is based on theories from cognitive science, biological neuroscience, and psychology. It uses computer models and experimental evidence to simulate and study brain processes. Research into the mechanisms of knowledge generation is ongoing; those interested can refer to specialized works.

How the human brain thinks, learns, and develops its thinking abilities are questions still under exploration. With the development of human society, differences between languages ​​are no longer barriers to communication. The exchange of knowledge between nations and civilizations has become a regular activity. In particular, knowledge expressed in written form has become shared knowledge. Everyone must first learn and master the vast amount of knowledge accumulated by humankind before creating new knowledge. Furthermore, this new knowledge must be integrated into the existing knowledge base to play a greater role. Therefore, any new knowledge generated today can be considered a product of collective human wisdom. Human destiny is now inextricably linked at the knowledge level, forming a unified information system.

Scientists are currently researching how artificial information processing machines can mimic the human brain to process information and generate new knowledge by making full use of accumulated human knowledge (data).

In short, a single tree cannot make a forest, and this is true in the realm of knowledge.

Over thousands of years, the development of humankind has truly frightened Apocalypse. He never imagined that the ordinary people he looked down upon would have developed to this extent in recent years.

So even though he remains a mutant supremacist, he still decides to acknowledge human intelligence!
As for Egypt, frankly speaking, the situation is already quite dire.

Especially after the world has undergone tremendous changes, it is one of the first to be affected!

But this gave Apocalypse an opportunity.

He used his acquired political knowledge to restore order in the chaotic country of Egypt.

Instead, it gave this deeply troubled country a chance for a new beginning!
But once the land recovered, his neighbor next door was in trouble!