Chapter 1901 The Inception of Intent
Over the next few days, Rui immersed himself in the newest idea for his Martial Art technique. A technique that could allow him to read his opponent''s mind to some degree by hypnotizing them such that their non-verbalmunication reflected their mind to a certain degree.
This was possible if one was in a trance, which was a state of semi-consciousness. In this state, the subconscious mind gained greater control over the body. What Rui was particrly interested in was the fact that he could read what the subconscious mind was conveying much more easily.
Thus, in regards to the catoblepas, Rui needed to develop a technique that put them in a trance where they would relive the memories of the Divine Doctor. He could trigger them into doing so by showing them the visual depiction of the Divine Doctor as he had before, except, this time, he would be doing it to them while they were in a trance.
The visual depiction of the Divine Doctor would trigger associated memories, causing them to relive them, which, in turn, would be reflected in their non-verbalmunication. In this manner, he would be able to get detailed ess to their memories, hopefully.
However, Rui was enthusiastic about the prospects of such a Martial Art technique beyond just the catoblepas.
"If I can put my opponents in a quasi-trance mid-battle and cause their subconscious minds to gain a stronger hold over their body such that it reflects their intent well ahead of time…" Rui could not contain the sheer excitement that he felt at the prospects of such a technique.
Reading the subconscious mind through non-verbalmunication could do much more than allow him to read intent in the conscious mind.
It could allow him to read the very inception of intent that urred in the subconscious mind! Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.
Rui recalled a paper on a rather groundbreaking experiment that he had read back on Earth during the development of the VOID algorithm.
The physiologist Benjamin Libet once famously used an EEG to show that activity in the brain''s motor cortex could be detected three hundred milliseconds before a person felt that they had decided to move.
Anotherb extended this work using functional maic resonance imaging (fMRI): Subjects were asked to press one of two buttons while watching a clockposed of a random sequence of letters appearing on a screen. They reported which letter was visible at the moment they decided to press one button or the other. The experimenters found two regions of the brain that contained information about which button subjects would press a full seven to ten seconds before the decision was consciously made. More recently, direct recordings from the cortex showed that the activity of merely two hundred and fifty-six neurons was sufficient to predict with eighty percent uracy a person''s decision to move seven hundred milliseconds before he became aware of it.
In other words, if Rui could read any extent of a person''s subconscious mind by cing them in a quasi-trance such that their non-verbalmunication reflected their subconscious mind, he could read the very inception of intent!
He fidgeted impatiently, trying to temper his enthusiasm and excitement. Naturally, he recognized that this could not possibly be as smooth as he had hoped.
Even if the creation of the technique went smoothly, which he doubted, the technique itself would not be able to allow him to urately interpret thenguage of non-verbalmunication.
While non-verbalmunication was universal, that did not mean it was universally identical.
Everybody had a partially unique non-verbalmunicationnguage.
It could be thought of as regional dialects and ents to a nationalnguage. English was a widespreadnguage on Earth, but it had its variants, different dialects, and all manners of ents impeding sophisticatedmunication even among its speakers. There was enough ovep for smooth generalmunication. But the moment Rui wanted to read something as precise as the activation of a few hundred neurons out of billions, he would need to know theirnguage.
"Tsk," Rui tutted. He had hoped to find a low-hanging fruit that he had somehow missed before that would give massive upgrades to his Martial Art at a particrly low price, but s. It could not be helped.
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Thankfully, the path to fulfilling his vision was not mired in mist. "If everybody has a differentnguage, then…" His eyes narrowed. "I''ll just have to decode theirnguage."
Linguists did it all the time. When approaching the script of an entirely unfamiliarnguage, they would begin looking for patterns and associations that could help them learn thenguage''s meanings.
In the context of Rui''s new idea, he could employ a pattern recognition system designed to understand the corrtion between conveyed non-verbalmunication and the intent of his opponent.
Thus, if he observed a particr set of physiological changes and micro-movements that were immediately followed by a roundhouse kick, then the next time he saw those very same physiological changes and micro-movements, he could infer that his opponent''s intent was to throw a roundhouse kick.
Of course, this was an oversimplification. He would need a muchrger dataset than a single data point. But Martial Artists threw thousands, tens of thousands, or even more kicks every second. In other words, he had plenty of data to work with.
"In order to process that data and learn the uniquenguage of subconsciousness…" Rui uttered, immersed in thought. "I''ll need a new system of thought."
A wide smile emerged on his face at the realization. His Martial Mind was already quiterge with the VOID algorithm and the Angel of Lace. The addition of a new system of thought to his nascent Martial Mind, especially one asrge and sophisticated as what he had conceived, would undoubtedly push him much closer to a higher Realm of power!
"Chief," Kane broke him out of his reverie. "Before you get absorbed into whatever it is that has caught your attention this time, do something about the catoblepas."
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