Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 66 The Magic Net

"I believe that for a spell to be effective, at least two conditions are required."

"First comes magic. People without magic are Muggles, and animals without magic are ordinary animals. With magic, a wizard can become a wizard, and a magical creature can become a magical creature."

"Magic is authority; it's the key to causing the wave function to collapse in a specific direction."

"Secondly, there is willpower. A wizard must have a full imagination of the effect he wants to achieve and enough confidence and motivation to make it happen. In the world of magic, consciousness determines matter. Without the impetus of willpower, matter will do as it pleases, and spells played from recordings will have no effect."

"Based on this hypothesis, in order to explain the compatibility of different spells with different wizards, I introduced a third hypothesis."

"The Multidimensional Hypothesis of Magic".

"Assuming magic has multiple dimensions, and each dimension has many levels or tiers, it can be represented by numerical values. Each wizard's magic has different tiers in each dimension."

"I analyzed all the spells and roughly divided the dimensions of magic into six: creation, protection, mind, transformation, shaping, and manipulation. This six-dimensional analysis method is not perfect yet, but it can already break down almost all spells into one or more of these six elements."

"When the elemental components of a spell are compatible with the wizard's magical dimension, the compatibility is higher, and the wizard can more easily cast the spell. When the two dimensions are significantly different, it is more difficult to cast the spell."

"Finally, to address the issue of the same wizard casting the same spell with varying degrees of power, I introduced a fourth hypothesis."

"The Guiding Hypothesis of Will"

"To execute a spell, in addition to magic, one also needs the guidance of will to determine the direction of the wave function's collapse. That is, to give a specific vision of the spell's effect."

"For example, with the Levitation Charm, at least the wizard has a mental expectation of levitation when casting it. Or with the Transfiguration Charm, if a wizard wants to turn a cup into a mouse, he should at least know what a mouse looks like. If someone has never seen a mouse before, he would never be able to perform such a transformation."

"In other words, this kind of imagination is based on our understanding of things."

"Our understanding of something can be divided into many levels. One is sensory cognition, such as apples being red, sweet, and edible. In addition, there is rational cognition, such as fire being a chemical reaction, the color of a flame being related to the elements of the reactants, and the flame test being the physical process by which electrons outside the nucleus of atoms release photons during the transition after gaining or losing energy."

"In theory, the more comprehensive our understanding of something, the easier it is to imagine, and the faster and more stable the process of guiding magic to form phenomena. Correspondingly, the power of magic will be stronger."

"Based on the above four hypotheses, we can deduce that there are several ways to enhance the power of a spell."

"First, try to make the spells work in a way that is more in line with the laws of nature."

"For example, making a cup of water by condensing water vapor is much simpler than creating hydrogen and oxygen atoms out of thin air and then combining them into water."

"Secondly, enhance the levels of magic in all dimensions."

"The levels of multidimensional magic are roughly equivalent to a wizard's talent."

"Changing one's talent is difficult, but Andrew's transformation approach may be helpful in this regard."

"Third, we must strengthen the guidance of will."

"For example, practicing a certain spell more often can strengthen your intuitive understanding of that spell."

"For example, understanding the principles behind spells and the real-world physical phenomena they invoke can enhance one's imagination of the principles behind spells. For instance, knowledge of aerodynamics will certainly help in the application of spells such as levitation and flight spells. A deeper understanding of the anatomical structure of a mouse will certainly help in transforming a cup into a mouse."

"In fact, almost all knowledge of human history is useful to wizards. Even knowledge of philosophy and economics, which may not seem to have corresponding magic, can help wizards better understand certain phenomena and comprehend certain principles from different angles and levels, which is very helpful in broadening wizards' thinking patterns and thought processes."

Murphy understood. "You mean, the more precise and comprehensive our understanding of the world, the more knowledge we possess, the more powerful the related spells will be?"

"Yes," Haldane said. "In fact, I have a preliminary conjecture about the mechanism of the spell."

"I think spells might be a wish-granting system."

"Oh? What do you mean?" This was the first time Murphy had heard this explanation.

"Simply thinking about it reveals that when wizards cast spells, their imagination of the effects of the spells is actually very vague and general."

"For example, using transfiguration to turn a teacup into a mouse. Wizards may have thought about the size, sex, and color of the mouse, but they certainly never imagined the mouse's specific weight, age, how long its tail is, how many hairs it has, how many bones it has, what its heart looks like, and so on."

"However, when the transfiguration brings the rat into existence, these characteristics are still present."

"It is no longer 'a certain' mouse, but has become 'this' mouse."

"Many of its uncertainties have been eliminated, and its wave function has collapsed into a value within an extremely small range."

"So, how was this collapse achieved? How were details that those wizards never imagined, or even that were completely absent from their knowledge structure, filled in?"

"I think there must be something that made the decision for the wizard."

"It determines whether the tearing apart will split a piece of paper into four or five pieces; it determines the order in which the unlocking spell should be used to manipulate the lock; it determines whether the guiding spell indicates the shortest or fastest path..."

"This thing that may exist and governs the specific execution of all magic, I call the 'Magic Network'."

"And the process of wizards casting spells can be seen as making a wish to the magic net."

"When a wizard's wish is not clear enough, the magic network will take care of itself. The more precise the wizard's imagination is and the more limiting factors there are, the more likely he is to get the result he wants."

Murphy frowned as he listened; this feeling seemed so familiar.

How similar this is to the "spell" he used to communicate with those large models before he traveled through time!

Is the so-called "Magic Network" a large model based on neural networks? A deep learning AI?

That's why spells sound like combinations of keywords?

These keywords may not even be pre-set by the "magic network," but rather learned by the "magic network" after thousands of machine learning processes, as each time a senior wizard chanted a certain spell and imagined a specific magical effect.

hiss……

The logic seems very self-consistent!

(End of this chapter)