Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

In addition to the headache, Murphy also experienced various symptoms such as drowsiness, slowed reaction speed, and sweet cravings in the next few days.

He felt that The Lion King was playing in his mind every day, and now it was not just the lines. He felt that if he gave himself a pen, it could draw The Lion King from beginning to end.

"In short, these are the consequences of increased neural connections," explains Omid Abbott.

"I just recalled a movie I watched in the past, and it increased so many neural connections?" Murphy was a little unconvinced, "Then if you read papers every day, wouldn't your brains have been bursting early? Already?"

Murphy did not mention The Lion King, but only briefly explained the phenomenon he encountered.

Omid thought for a moment and said, "I can explain this from two aspects."

"On the one hand, the amount of information you get from a comprehensive recall is probably much greater than a few papers."

"How to say?"

"Our brains are very smart. We are exposed to an unimaginable amount of information every day, such as visual information. Our eyes have extremely high resolution, converted into pixels, there are hundreds of millions of pixels, and our recognition of dynamic vision The capability is close to thirty frames per second, and when converted into bytes, more than 15G bytes of visual information alone is transmitted to our brains per second."

"One day is more than 600 petabytes of data."

"With such a large amount of information, our brain does not actually process all of it. Instead, based on its attention mechanism, it only selects some parts that require special attention for calculation. Most of the information is not processed. And by combining some useful We form memories by associating information with known information, and much less of this information is ultimately remembered."

"Because this memory method is mostly an index and association of past memories, even certain images and scenes will be simplified into some elements and features. Therefore, when converted into words, it is actually not much, or even smaller than Not a paper worth tens of thousands of words.”

"But according to what you said, comprehensive recall can allow you to clearly remember almost all the details of that scene, so the amount of information is probably quite large."

"On the other hand, you might have a misconception about how the brain works."

"In fact, the human brain is working all the time. The 'game' time in ordinary people's cognition is still a continuous learning and training process for the brain. This kind of learning and training is not as important to the brain as studying a paper. Essential difference."

"The brain is learning all the time, but the reason why our brains don't grow bigger is that while we are learning, we are also forgetting. A large number of synapses are being established and decaying all the time. .”

"It's our brain's way of keeping updated and focused on the problems we're facing right now."

"Our understanding is that in the process of using Legilimency on yourself, a large number of 'sleeping synapses' were awakened, and a large number of new neural connections were formed. The overall amount of information may be equivalent to an ordinary person's four or five days or even one day. The amount of information the brain should increase in two weeks.”

"In such a short process, so much information burden is added, but there is no forgetting mechanism to reduce the burden. Your brain will naturally take some time to adapt."

Murphy understood, but still asked: "Are there any ideas for improvement? I mean, the kind that doesn't require an external pensieve."

To be honest, it felt quite good to have such a clear understanding of his own memories, as if he could replay every second of his life from childhood to adulthood if he wanted to.

Not to mention how many treasures can be unearthed from it, just the significance of further mastering his own body and mind made him not want to give up this spell.

"Perhaps enhancing the brain's capabilities will help improve this symptom," Omid said. "But our brain is already nature's most efficient and powerful computing tool, and it's hard for me to imagine how to enhance it."

Murphy thought for a while and suddenly clapped his hands, "Don't tell me, there are really ways to enhance intelligence in the wizarding world."

He took Omid to the potions laboratory on the eighth floor.

Compared to the Charms Laboratory and the Magical Creatures Laboratory, which are occupied by various magical creatures and transformation research groups, this place is much deserted.

There are currently only three research groups with a total of more than twenty people working here.

Their main task was to analyze the Beauty Potion and the Love Potion in order to find a Muggle way to replace the wizard's way of making these two potions - at least a way to replace some of the steps.

Relatively speaking, the analysis of beautiful potions is progressing faster. For example, they have now made an intermediate potion that does not contain fairy wings and unicorn hair, reducing the steps for wizards to make beautiful potions from seven to three. .

The analysis of love potions has progressed relatively slowly.

On the one hand, the production process of the love potion is indeed much more complicated than the beauty potion.

On the other hand...Murphy has heard many reports of chaotic relationships between men and women in this group...

It is said that the love potion research team, with a total of nine people, five men and four women, actually developed more than a dozen couples, many of which were male-male, female-female, male-female, female-male, male-female, etc. combination.

Laura reported that this tumultuous relationship between men and women had delayed the progress of the study of love drugs. She had suggested a regular rotation of members of the research team, but Murphy rejected it.

Good guy, if we still rotate, why don’t we turn the entire institute into a love testing ground?

I specifically asked you to do research, not you to do "the most powerful and ancient magic".

Moreover, Murphy felt that the researchers could not be blamed for this matter.

This might even be considered a work-related injury.

They work in an environment filled with addictive drugs all day long. They don't party together all day long, and they can still have the mind to conduct research. They are already very professional.

In addition to beautiful potions and love potions, the research on other potions is basically the personal interests of researchers. Some are studying bone spirits, some are studying refreshing potions, and some are studying some magic materials such as moon-crazy beast feces, Motla rat juice, Dragon's blood and other things.

Because this type of research is relatively partial and far away from Murphy's overall goal of "enhancing wizard abilities", it is not taken seriously by everyone. Therefore, there is usually only one researcher doing each type of research.

Compared with the members of the large research team who work together, they appear to be relatively isolated, so they mock themselves as "lone wolf researchers".

What Murphy is looking for today is a lone wolf researcher.

"Pex Morey," Murphy found the tall Slavic man wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, "his research topic is..."

"Intelligence-enhancing potion." Pekes took the initiative, "I think it can make a person's mind more flexible."