Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

Funes Bachmann and Omid Abbott are having a great time these days.

The director didn't know where he got a lot of magical creatures. Most of them have some simple intelligence, and many of them can even talk. And they don't talk like parrots, they really express their thoughts.

Even better, no one cares about the life or death of these non-human intelligent creatures.

Even Teacher Celica, who had always regarded the two of them as perverts, had no objection to their experiments on goblins.

Excellent experimental materials, an experimental environment without ethical constraints, and they can even get help from magic!

Two scientists in the field of consciousness and cognition finally had the opportunity to interfere more directly with their research objects. This made them excited. Some experiments that they would never have had the opportunity to conduct were removed from secret filing cabinets by the two. Turn inside out.

In the past six months, the two of them have been immersed in the joy of discovery and exploration almost every day.

It wasn't until Murphy started slamming the table in front of them that they suddenly woke up.

Ah...yes, the boss seems to want us to study the seeds of the soul, not to do basic research on consciousness and the brain!

It's over, I'm going to use Party A's father's money to do my own little science experiment...

If you get caught, will you get a blast from the hammer?

Funes broke into a cold sweat with a guilty conscience. Fortunately, they did not really forget the ultimate goal of the research, but they just went too far on some side tasks.

"Director, we have achieved results, many achievements."

"Okay." Murphy nodded, obviously not very convinced, "Let me ask the most important question, can I use the spiritual seed safely without worrying about its effect expanding unexpectedly?"

"Yes!" Funes said immediately.

"Huh?" Murphy questioned.

"It's like this," Funes noticed Murphy's suspicion and immediately explained: "We discovered a phenomenon in the process of using the soul seed on intelligent creatures such as goblins."

"There are actually two ways to use the seed of the soul."

"In fact, our past understanding of the mind belonged to the first usage."

"What do you mean?" Murphy's interest was successfully aroused.

"Our consciousness can be roughly divided into two modes of thinking: emotional and logical."

“The cognition of things, the way of driving thinking, the way of deciding behavior, etc., can all be divided by this dichotomy.”

“In the emotional mode, cognition is more direct, the way of thinking is simpler and more subjective, and the driving force for behavior is very strong.”

"In the rational mode, the cognitive ability is more analytical, the way of thinking is more complex and objective, and it can process more information, but the driving force for behavior is relatively weak."

"The command form of the soul seed can also be realized in these two different ways."

"For example, in the first way, we can order a goblin to hate drinking water. Although the goblin knows that drinking water is necessary, it will force itself to drink water to maintain life, but out of its inner disgust, it may become more and more If you rarely drink water and find various reasons for yourself to justify not drinking water, the goblin may eventually die of thirst."

"In the second way, we can order the goblin not to drink water. In this case, the goblin's emotional channel is smooth. It still wants to drink water when it is thirsty, but its behavioral logic is blocked, and he If you can't drink water, the goblin may eventually go crazy or even commit suicide because of this dilemma."

“In the first way, we actually implant a high-priority concept into the emotional pathway that cannot be eliminated or avoided.”

"This method encounters less resistance, is easier to succeed, and the effect is very obvious, but its disadvantage is that this irremovable concept will gradually become the emotional core of the recipient."

"The subject will regard this implanted concept as his deepest and most primitive emotional driving force after countless attempts to resist and digest this core, but failed."

"This core will gradually accumulate all the other emotions of the subject close to itself and stamp them with its own brand, thus becoming the top of the subject's emotions and controlling all the emotional experiences of the subject."

"And because emotional experience is the most basic element of personality and can also guide and rewrite the direction of logic, it is almost impossible to be defeated by the subject."

"It's like a hopeless mental illness that eats away at the assimilated person's mind and eventually turns a person into a fanatical believer in a certain concept."

This is in line with Murphy's understanding of the magic of soul seeds.

The reason why he didn't dare to use the soul seed at will was because he saw this trend.

Fanatic believers are uncontrollable and untrustworthy. For example, if you cast a spell on a person to make him loyal to you, there is no problem if he becomes a loyal licking dog.

But what if he feels that none of his master's friends are worthy of his great master, and kills them all?

Fanatics have no sense at all, just like gamblers or some fans whose brains have been hijacked. Their behavior lacks logic and is impossible to predict.

Fans often bring trouble to their idols, and fanatical followers will bring endless trouble to their masters.

Murphy really wasn't trying to recruit a bunch of lunatics.

Is it fun to be the director of an asylum?

Hmm...it does seem to be fun...

However, this is not Gotham. If there is an Arkham, what if someone gets mad and presses the launch button of the nuclear bomb?

Do you really want to repeat the story you wrote for your diary?

"What about the second way?"

"The second method is to set a rule in the logical chain of the subject."

"This method is far less effective than the first one, and is likely to be resisted because logical and rational decision-making priority is lower than emotion and instinct."

"However, what it has in common with the first method is that the implanted rules cannot be eliminated or bypassed. Any decision-making related to the rules must be approved by the rules before they can be implemented."

"Its flaw is obvious, that is, it is likely to lead to conflicts in emotional cognition. You want to do something but can't do it, or you don't want to do something but you have to do it, which will bring great frustration to people."

"When people continue to suffer this kind of frustration, some people will choose to compromise and record it as something they must get used to. They may even gradually internalize it into their emotional core and accept this rule from the outside in."

"But some people are unable to accept this frustration, which leads to symptoms such as mental or personality splitting, severe depression, and even the feeling of being unable to control their own lives, which may lead to suicide."

"That doesn't sound very good," Murphy said. "The safe way to use the soul seed you mentioned is the second way?"

"Yes, but it requires some skills to use."