39. Flying camels

Shen Yun remembers that when she graduated from Stanford, Qu Zhaodi was still a sophomore, and because of that meeting at Danny's party, they finally went from strangers to acquaintances to talk about.

Later, for some reason, the kid suddenly became sticky to her, not like a crazy pursuit of the girl he liked, but constantly creating some contact opportunities that are not far away, not close, and if they are away. That kind of performance can be regarded as an annoying ambiguity.

Qu Zhaodi wishfully creates opportunities, but Shen Yun's stereotype of him is deep-rooted, always thinking that if he really chooses this gentleman who is three years younger than him as her husband, it is estimated that the rest of his life will have to spend the rest of his life in various struggles with the third and fourth, and even the fifth and sixth children. She won't put up with that boring life.

After attending the graduation ceremony, Shen Yun returned to the dormitory and packed her luggage to prepare for China.

No matter how generous the job treatment promised by those large companies in the United States, she is also like a southbound Yan'er looking forward to returning to the north, and when she thinks of her home in Baoding, Hebei Province, she is like an arrow.

Someone was knocking on the door, "knock knock" knocked out the earth-shattering domineering, Shen Yun guessed who it was when she heard it, opened the door, and there was Qu Zhaodi standing outside the door, wearing a hip-hop style, wearing a Yankees NY baseball cap, and calling "little sister" with a hippie smile. These three words are the prefix he must wear every time he speaks to her.

Qu Zhaodi did not enter the door and insisted on using a Hummer to take Shen Yun to Stanford's campus for a farewell tour, which required Shen Yun not to refuse. No matter how strong her desire to return to China is, she also has a strong sense of reluctance to this world's top ten higher education institution.

Stanford's campus is more than 8,000 acres so large that it was nicknamed "Farm University" for a long time because a large part of it was once farms that raised high-quality racehorses.

In 1950, the Harvard Radio Laboratory was established in the United States, which was an institution that researched unlimited jammers for anti-radar monitoring for the U.S. government in the name of radio. The person in charge, Frederick. When Terman tasted the sweetness of government funding, he brought the major experts in the laboratory to Stanford and established the "Systems Engineering Laboratory", which specialized in a large number of research related to military secrets, and since then has become a partner of the American military industrial giant, so Stanford, an obscure "small broken school", has been pushed on the road to rise.

The Hoover Memorial Tower is the landmark of the university, and the university campus is like a vast natural forest park, but you can't find the mystery of the irregular and deep development of the natural world.

The campus as a whole is divided into four major areas by an axis with opposing sides, and the Spanish-style courtyard building surrounded by red pine trees is located in the axis, and from a distance it looks like an old but newly dressed leader with a short figure.

Architectural genius Fred. Olmerst's unique vision of how to incorporate the beauty of nature into a complex of buildings forced him to abandon his plan to build the campus on a foothill due to the stubbornness of railroad tycoon Sr. Sr.

Despite this, he still relies on extraordinary ideas and exquisite skills to combine the natural elements distributed in the plane into a perfect three-dimensional landscape painting, and the buildings in the interspersed paintings are cleverly set at the best intersection of each two dimensional lines, becoming the primary element that activates the three-dimensional sense of design and gives nature a fresh vitality. This kind of reverse thrust helps him to achieve the best perspective effect of flat aesthetics.

After climbing the bell tower, Shen Yun was attracted by the oval-shaped green center belt in front of the main campus. The beautiful days of the day are coming to an end, and the sunset slows down its departing pace, releasing its last rays. In the middle of the meadow, the bright red "S" letter surrounded by flowers and the grass reflect the golden sunlight, as if it also conveys a fragrant aroma, which is extremely intoxicating.

Qu Zhaodi leaned lazily against the railing, squinting like a dozing corgi. The pleasant evening view fell on his eyes, but it was as plain as turning on the tap and watching the tap water flow out.

"The appearance of a little ruffian can never be changed!" Turning his head to see his virtue, Shen Yun sighed secretly. She didn't want to spoil her interest because of him, so she looked farther away at Disc Mountain, but the lazy voice rang in her ears.

"If a camel with wings flew in front of the bell tower now, would the scenery at its feet still attract your attention and make you feel picturesque?"

"What did you say?"

Pleasant thoughts were interrupted, and Shen Yun had to stare at him seriously.

"I mean, based on the information stored in the neurons of the brain, everyone is convinced that the four-legged camel is a land animal and cannot fly into the sky, so the brain's cognition succumbs to the instructions of the neurons and directly excludes the camel from the flying creatures. But one day, when you really see a camel flying in the sky, this actual phenomenon will have a huge impact on the original cognition, and in layman's terms, when the impossible thing really happens, people will have that kind of horror of seeing a ghost. So they will start all kinds of exploration and verification, please tell me what the content of the verification is. ”

In the end, Qu Zhaodi finally cheered up. He lifted half of his body from the railing and pushed the baseball cap visor behind his head, but the expression on his face had nothing to do with academic discussion, it was the kind of provocative, vicious waiting to see the other person make a fool of himself.

Brain cognition is one of the subjects that Shen Yun studies here, and she can get an A in every exam, so she almost laughs at such a simple question, and answers without thinking: "Of course, it is to study why camels fly." Maybe the camel is a variant with a different genetic makeup from its counterparts? ”

"Hahaha, well said! But you, like most people, couldn't be more wrong! Qu Zhaodi really dug the pit in advance and waited for her by the side, "Proud human beings always take their own cognition as the criterion for judging right and wrong, but blindly ignore the narrowness of cognition. What they like to do most is to hide their ears and steal the bell, and stick to the rules. As long as the existence of facts is ignored, it really does not exist. It's also hard to think outside the box of rules. Tell me, why is it that the first thing that comes to your mind is not the error of information stored by neurons, which leads to cognitive biases? ”

Shen Yun was speechless.

The flying camel is of course Qu Zhaodi's whims, but according to his theory, humans should not make a fuss at all when it really appears, to put it bluntly, there are already flying camels, but humans have not discovered it in the past, so they have not transmitted this useful information to the neurons, that is, the brain. Therefore, not knowing does not mean that it does not exist, and things that exist but have not been discovered are likely to appear in front of them suddenly, and when human beings are amazed by this suddenness, it is their ignorance.