Starting as a Wallfacer, his defection to the Three-Body Problem shocked the world.

The initial task of Project SuperDream was simply to add more models to the data—any kind of model would do. The more models there were, the more accurate the subsequent inferences would be.

Yun Tianming is definitely the most suitable candidate for the Super Dream Project. His imagination is at least ten times that of a normal person, which is of great help in the early stage of database model building.

As long as he wasn't asked to imagine data models of the people around him, he did quite well with other objects.

After Wang Miao reported this matter to Lin Xuan, Lin Xuan was actually a little surprised. He thought that given Yun Tianming's sycophantic nature, the only human model he could create would be Cheng Xin.

However, upon closer reflection, Lin Xuan understood.

The last time Yun Tianming saw Cheng Xin was after he graduated from his undergraduate program. Cheng Xin had been pursuing her master's and doctoral degrees for at least seven years before being transferred to work at PIA. It had been almost ten years since they last saw each other.

Whether Yun Tianming still remembers what Cheng Xin looks like is probably a question.

Even if Yun Tianming really did remember what Cheng Xin looked like, he would not allow Cheng Xin's appearance to be used as the subject of this experiment.

"At this rate, it will only take about six months for us to complete the basic structure of the Dream World."

Wang Miao performed a detailed data calculation, listing all the relevant models needed to build the Super Dream World.

There are a total of 184,723 basic models that need to be added to the database, including more than 90,000 models of natural environments such as terrain, weather, tides, sunsets, birds and animals, and the remainder are some industrial products such as cars, ships, airplanes and cannons.

Wang Miao actually wanted Yun Tianming to try to replicate the particle collider into the Super Dream World, but to build a complete model in the database, the human brain needs to have at least a basic understanding of such a thing.

This is also a major reason why Yun Tianming was unable to construct a human model in the Super Dream World.

Because he simply doesn't understand that if he forces the creation, either the database will throw an error, or, like with Wang Miao, the resulting human model will appear dull and lifeless, no different from a robot.

Therefore, in addition to building database models in the Super Dream World, Yun Tianming's daily work also requires him to constantly learn new knowledge.

From clinical medicine to automated manufacturing, from microbiology to art appreciation, the breadth of her knowledge is probably unmatched even by Cheng Xin.

In order to speed up Yun Tianming's learning, Lin Xuan even asked for two more consciousness extractors from Hines.

Then, an application was submitted to the PDC, which sent over several master's degree holders in these fields. Their professional knowledge was first extracted into the database, and then downloaded into Yun Tianming's brain through the database.

Why not just find a PhD?

Since it's completely unnecessary, Yun Tianming only needs to understand the basic principles and structure of some things. Too complex knowledge would significantly increase transmission time and might place an excessive burden on Yun Tianming's consciousness. Therefore, a master's degree is sufficient.

Even for some very similar majors, Lin Xuan only found a few undergraduates to do the consciousness extraction work.

For example, the three majors of artificial intelligence technology, Internet of Things technology, and communication engineering technology cover almost the same content, only with different focuses. In order to save more time, Lin Xuan chose to extract only the non-overlapping parts of the knowledge.

Lin Xuan made an attempt to extract relevant professional knowledge from the brain of a complete master's student, which took about 13 hours.

It would take eight hours to transmit this knowledge into Yun Tianming's brain for him to absorb and understand.

However, if the target of the extraction is changed to undergraduate students, it only takes about 3 hours, which is a speed improvement of about 10 hours.

Lin Xuan also conducted a very interesting experiment. He was curious about how long it would take to extract knowledge from a senior high school student. The result was that it took 4 hours, which was an hour longer than that of an undergraduate student.

"So, senior year of high school really is the peak of intellectual ability, huh?"

In this way, Yun Tianming became a container of knowledge, with a large amount of knowledge being poured into his mind every day. The construction of the Super Dream World was also progressing rapidly, and the hundreds of thousands of models listed by Wang Miao were gradually added to the database by Yun Tianming.

Some people might not understand why we don't just let these master's students with relevant knowledge build the project in the Dream World?

Instead, they insist on first importing their knowledge into Yun Tianming's brain, and then using Yun Tianming as a medium to construct it?

Isn't this just like taking off your pants to fart—a completely unnecessary and pointless act?

To explain this process, we need to look at the three functions of the human brain and the principles behind the construction of the dream world.

To put it simply, wisdom, knowledge, and imagination are three completely different things.

Wisdom and knowledge are not the same thing; having knowledge does not necessarily mean having wisdom.

Knowledge is merely the product of a person's brain processing information, while wisdom is their way of thinking when dealing with a problem.

For example, Cheng Xin is definitely more knowledgeable than Shi Qiang, and there's no way to refute that, right?

If we use Shi Qiang as a unit of measurement, Cheng Xin, as an aerospace doctor, has a knowledge reserve that is definitely equivalent to about five Shi Qiangs.

However, if Cheng Xin had been present at the Guzheng Project instead of Shi Qiang, she would never have come up with such a brilliant plan.

To put it simply, knowledge is how much money you have, while wisdom is how you spend it.

Compared to the Trisolarans, humans are far behind in terms of knowledge reserves, but in terms of intelligence, humans and Trisolarans are evenly matched. In fact, because the Trisolarans lack emotional fluctuations, humans have an edge in this regard.

Now you can understand why Hines' plan was so highly regarded by the PDC, because his first step was to enhance human intelligence, that is, to surpass the Trisolarans in the ability to process information.

However, this plan was almost impossible to realize. The Trisolarans had long realized this and used sophons to block the future development of this technology, which led Hines to develop the plan for a second layer of thought imprint.

Let's go back to these three concepts. Now that we understand what knowledge is and what wisdom is, let's talk about imagination.

This is a way of guessing information by the brain's consciousness. If wisdom is like multiplication, then imagination is like division.

Wisdom processes information to obtain results, while imagination first creates results and then deduces the process.

Human civilization, through imagination, depicted myths such as Kuafu chasing the sun, Chang'e flying to the moon, and Nuwa patching up the sky. Five thousand years later, these myths were used to deduce various technologies. This is the result of the processing of imagination.

The database model construction process of the Super Dream Project is a process of reverse engineering through imagination.

Perhaps Yun Tianming is not as wise or knowledgeable as these master's and doctoral students, but it is precisely because of this that he has an extraordinary imagination.

He can first manufacture a machine, and then in the dream world, slowly build up its parts, screws, and finally its chip, to complete the assembly of the entire instrument.

However, master's and doctoral students are the opposite. Because they are too rational, they not only fail to accelerate the construction process, but also find it difficult to make breakthroughs in the construction process because their knowledge is too precise.

In fact, Luo Ji, Zhang Beihai, and Yun Tianming are three representatives of knowledge, wisdom, and imagination.

"So, does that mean we can materialize knowledge?"

After studying the instrument for a week, Wang Miao also discovered a new use for it.

“Look, we can extract consciousness into a storage container similar to the human brain, visualize it and store it in the real world, and then if someone needs this knowledge, we can fill them with this visualized knowledge.”

"If we extract Dr. Ding Yi's knowledge multiple times and share it with all of humanity, wouldn't everyone become a PhD in nuclear physics?"

Upon hearing Wang Miao's idea, Lin Xuan couldn't help but clap her hands in approval.

"That's a great idea. Why don't we just call these extracted things 'bottled knowledge'? What do you think?"

Wang Miao sensed the sarcasm in Lin Xuan's words and gave an awkward laugh.

"I was just saying, after all, this thing seems to have a lot of potential. Once it's made, there will definitely be a lot of people in PDC who will be interested in it."

Lin Xuan's comment on this was...

"If we really do that, human thought will be gradually unified, and at that time, we will lose our only advantage over the Trisolarans."