bookbashuk Chapter 164 Breaking Through the Barrier
Chapter 164 Breaking Through the Barrier
Chapter 164 Breaking Through the Barrier (Part 2)
Shen Qing's improvisational performances played a very important role in the treatment of Ran Tong and Meng Cai, but this was only a transitional strategy adopted in the research and exploration phase, not the final solution.
A mature treatment method with promotional value must inevitably shift to a standardized operating procedure, as excessive human intervention will bring unnecessary error risks.
Therefore, the performer Shen Qing, as well as him who acts as the judge and the prompter, will be replaced by the intelligent module in the next step.
Wei Hongsi judges the emotional needs of the patients based on their EEG feedback, and sends Shen Qing a code that corresponds to the melody and emotion. Shen Qing then plays according to the received request. This is the working principle of the music dimension intelligent module.
In Wei Hongsi's design, not only people are replaced, but also the music that needs to be heard.
He plans to convert music into auditory cognitive signals, which will then act directly on the auditory center through a transmission device. This part of the work refers to Shen Qing's statement about "turning musical elements into neural signals."
Speaking of perfecting this design concept, Shen Qing also deserves credit.
On Friday evening, after Wei Hongsi and his colleagues returned to their dormitory after having dinner outside, Shen Qing asked him to help her appreciate the newly composed music.
Wei Hongsi could only offer some suggestions to Shen Qing based on the data analysis methods and ideas from last time.
In the ensuing conversation, Shen Qing told Wei Hongsi a story about a "musical dice game," which she thought was similar to the emotional melody chart they had created.
Wei Hongsi was ignorant and only then did he realize that there was such a way to play music.
The number of musical pieces that can be generated from 272 pre-written measures through different permutations and combinations is astronomical. This is a simple numerical calculation and is not surprising in itself.
To his surprise, these combinations were all playable pieces of music, rather than meaningless, random piles of music.
To prove this point, Shen Qing played two randomly combined pieces of music for Wei Hongsi on the piano.
Wei Hongsi wanted to stop her pointless behavior, but out of guilt for being stood up by Meng Cai and having the date changed, he didn't want to spoil Shen Qing's mood.
Then, taking advantage of Shen Qing's demonstration performance, he redesigned the construction plan for the music resource library, drawing inspiration from the "musical dice game".
He doesn't need so many combinations, nor does he need a fully structured musical piece. What he needs is a musical emotional support system that can respond instantly to the EEG feedback of the patient.
After Shen Qing finished playing her piece, Wei Hongsi pulled her aside to discuss the plan.
Shen Qing told him that although Mozart's composition has an almost infinite number of combinations, the resulting pieces are all waltzes, with a high degree of unity in style, mood, and tonality, making it impossible to contain different emotions.
Wei Hongsi asked her what the smallest structural component of a piece of music is, and whether it is possible to combine musical fragments containing different emotions based on this.
This stumped Shen Qing, who had a formal background in composition, because she had never thought about this question before.
During their conversation, Wei Hongsi repeatedly revealed his "tone-deafness" by asking questions that could be described as those of a musical idiot.
Shen Qing, however, did not doubt Wei Hongsi's musical "talent" because of this; she thought it was a way of thinking that transformed musical problems into engineering problems.
Therefore, even when Wei Hongsi asked the most basic music knowledge questions, she thought that this was an engineering-style deconstruction of music issues.
The two continued their conversation until the early hours of the morning, finalizing a music library construction plan with Music Hub as its smallest unit.
Shen Qing was very interested in this research. On the one hand, through the treatment of Zai Tong and Meng Cai (she didn't know who the patients were), she could intuitively feel the positive significance of this research; on the other hand, the alternative deconstruction of music aroused her great interest.
She had spent a lot of time adding content to the music library these past two days, and it was already quite substantial. Therefore, after completing Meng Cai's treatment, Shen Qing rested for a while and then asked Wei Hongsi when they could begin the next phase of work.
Wei Hongsi's idea was also very simple: Jiang Haiyang was the most suitable person to do the task of converting music into auditory cognitive signals. He could talk to Jiang Haiyang and Shen Qing about it when he went to school in the afternoon.
After having lunch at the company cafeteria and resting for a while, Wei Hongsi drove the car that Wu Wenjun had given him to the school.
This is a black C-class sedan with a simple appearance, commonly seen on the road. Its most prominent advantage is its sturdiness.
Parking is a rather troublesome thing in Yuecheng. One reason is that parking spaces are hard to find, and the other is that parking fees are relatively expensive. As a result, some people who own cars don't drive them regularly.
Fortunately, there was no such problem getting to the school. Wei Hongsi had given the car number in advance, and when he arrived at the old campus, he drove straight in and stopped in front of the college's laboratory building.
After the collaboration with Zhiwei Technology was officially launched, the college designated an area in the laboratory building as part of the joint laboratory to support related research work.
Wei Hongsi verified his identity and registered at the entrance before entering the building and finding the joint laboratory's workspace.
When Feng Weixu and Jiang Haiyang saw Wei Hongsi approaching, they exchanged a glance before continuing with their work.
This was Wei Hongsi's first time here. He looked around and saw that the environment was similar to the decoding war room set up in the supercomputing center.
This location can also utilize the computing power resources of the supercomputing center and exchange data with the medical monitoring center of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Corps.
The dream interpretation work in the decoding operations room is not yet finished; the data from the police medical monitoring center is transferred from the receiving server there.
Wei Hongsi watched for a while, then Jiang Haiyang suddenly looked at him and asked, "Are you here to inspect the work?"
"That's possible." Wei Hongsi nodded.
"Get to work!" Jiang Haiyang said, pressing Wei Hongsi to sit down and assigning him tasks.
After finishing the tasks assigned by Jiang Haiyang, Wei Hongsi asked, "Is this the last one?"
Jiang Haiyang said, "Yes, it's also the most complicated one. According to the data we received, the subjects would intermittently fall into a coma."
Wei Hongsi then learned that the exclusive "neural translation package" being built at this moment belonged to President Xia, and that Xia Shiyu was probably with his father.
Xia was not involved in the morning's work because of this factor; however, at that time, we did not know that the police had arranged for Mr. Xia to be the last one.
Jiang Haiyang was in charge of this work, with Feng Weixu and Wei Hongsi acting as his assistants, listening to his adjustments and task assignments.
Having Wei Hongsi as an assistant makes the work of the other two a little easier, but it doesn't increase the progress, because the bottleneck lies with the test subjects. When Xia Yuansheng falls into a coma, their work will also come to a standstill.