When the other students heard this, they all nodded in agreement, and some of them echoed it, questioning Niu Xiaoqiang's answer, and the originally quiet classroom immediately became noisy.

The male teacher's eyes stayed on Niu Xiaoqiang's face all the time, with a big exclamation written on his face, and he turned a deaf ear to the noise in the classroom.

Niu Xiaoqiang sneered all the time, and waited until the noise subsided slightly, and then he said disdainfully: "Of course, words belong to the category of information, but what I just said is the concept that information does not belong to any conventional substance, is this wrong? If you think it is wrong, then please answer me, what kind of conventional material concept should words belong to?"

"This ......"

The male classmate was speechless for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

Niu Xiaoqiang's question is really unanswerable, because words really do not belong to any conventional material concept.

Seeing that the other party couldn't answer, he couldn't help sneering, and refuted mercilessly: "You were confusing the concept just now, or your logical thinking is a little confused, and you can't figure out the relationship between the textbook and the text, the textbook is just the carrier of information, and the text on it is the information itself.

The male student's face turned red, looking embarrassed and annoyed. Even if he is squeezed by Niu Xiaoqiang in public, he has no way, who makes Niu Xiaoqiang reasonable?

Another classmate didn't seem to be used to Niu Xiaoqiang's arrogant style, and couldn't help but interject: "Your previous answer borrowed the ideas of the great mathematician Shannon, saying that it was borrowed, but in fact it was plagiarism, I really don't know what you have to be proud of." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang rolled his eyes and glanced at this person, the other party was a boy with glasses, and his bearing looked calm.

Niu Xiaoqiang smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically: "This classmate, I can't agree with your point of view, like the classmate just now, your logical thinking is also very problematic, and you are simply changing concepts." ”

The student frowned slightly: "I don't know how I changed the concept?"

"Borrowing is not the same as plagiarism, especially in the academic field, even more so, Newton has a good saying, 'The reason why I can achieve what I am today is because I stand on the shoulders of giants', the meaning of this sentence must be clear to everyone, no matter what discipline it is, its knowledge structure is accumulated by generations of pioneers, and the knowledge we are learning is the result of our predecessors, if according to your meaning, is our learning process also plagiarizing the ideas of our predecessors? Do you think it is appropriate to say that?"

Niu Xiaoqiang paused here for a moment, and then continued: "Just like writing a graduation thesis, your theoretical basis is based on the foundation laid by your predecessors.

The student's face sank: "You are obviously deliberately misleading everyone, I didn't mean that." ”

"And what do you mean?"

"I mean the content of your answer just now is based on Shannon's point of view, and you don't have your own thoughts, even if your answer is correct, it's because Shannon is very powerful and has little to do with you personally, so you don't need to act so unstoppable!"

American college students prefer to be more honest and dare to insist on their own opinions, Niu Xiaoqiang feels that this atmosphere is very good, which can greatly stimulate the collision of ideas between students.

But the good thing is that he doesn't want to throw in the towel. Hearing this, Niu Xiaoqiang glanced around the entire classroom, and then asked such a question: "I wonder if any of the students here know the specific content of this paper written by Shannon?"

This question was a bit unexpected by everyone, and someone couldn't help but snort coldly: "Isn't this nonsense? This paper was written by Shannon in 1948, who can remember it?"

Many people deeply agreed with this and nodded in agreement, all of them felt that Niu Xiaoqiang had raised a very low-level question.

Niu Xiaoqiang smiled slightly, showing a confident expression: "I'm sorry, I remember the content of this paper very well, I can recite it word for word, do you want me to demonstrate it to you on the spot?"

As soon as he said this, the classroom fell silent for a moment, and only after a moment did someone speak: "What can you do if you remember?

Niu Xiaoqiang pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "This classmate, your words are really stupid, you don't want to think about it, if this has nothing to do with the issue we discussed, why should I bring it up?"

"Then you can explain to you whether you can remember what Shannon's paper has to do with the problem we are discussing!"

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded happily and looked at the bespectacled student: "If anyone here knows the specific content of this paper, they can know that this classmate who questioned me is wrong, in fact, I did not draw all the ideas of Shannon's paper, but expanded and extended it according to my personal understanding, Shannon just said' Information is something that is used to eliminate random indeterminacy', explained from the point of view of probability, and the concept that information does not belong to any conventional matter was put forward by me personally, this classmate, you questioned my answer without figuring out the situation, can I say that your knowledge and thinking are too shallow?"

The bespectacled student looked embarrassed and kept his mouth shut. Niu Xiaoqiang's words can be said to be reasonable, well-founded and restrained, so that he has no way to refute.

Niu Xiaoqiang saw that the other party was speechless, and couldn't help but smile, and glanced at the others: "If anyone still has questions, they can raise them, and we can communicate with each other." ”

It's a challenge to the whole class.

After a war of words just now, Niu Xiaoqiang has been inspired to become a teenager. He rarely has the opportunity to show his strong knowledge in China, and he is usually busy with business. Now that he has encountered such a good opportunity, Niu Xiaoqiang wants to show his talent.

There is another reason why Niu Xiaoqiang is so arrogant: he can see that foreign students seem to have a certain prejudice against the Chinese, although everyone does not explicitly say that they look down on the Chinese, but whether it is the demeanor or tone of speech, they all reveal this mentality, Niu Xiaoqiang feels that his blind low-key will only make this group of people look down on more, in this case, it is better to be arrogant, as long as this group of people is completely suppressed, they will put away the ridiculous sense of superiority.

Although Niu Xiaoqiang has shown extraordinary thinking and eloquence, there are still people who do not believe in evil, and as soon as his voice fell, someone immediately said: "What is the theoretical basis for your personal opinion? I think you are just piling up some esoteric rhetoric, which is too ridiculous!"