Perhaps Chen Ang had been reading this text for a long time, and it attracted the attention of the goblin guards at the door. These goblins looked a bit like the goblins and goblins commonly seen in the western fantasy world. Their light green skin and short stature, as well as their greedy nature for wealth, all reminded people of this fantasy race.
But the goblins in Harry Potter's world were a different kind of creature. They were not even considered intelligent life forms, but a kind of magical creature.
They were as common as the rats in the Muggle world, and often appeared in the back gardens of wizards. They looked like bearded dwarves, but they were annoying creatures with low intelligence. The twins of the Weasley family often experimented on goblins. In Chen Ang's eyes, they had a trace of the elegance of people of his generation.
Chen Ang brushed away the spell at the entrance of Gringotts and walked through the silver door. Inside was a tall marble hall. About a hundred or so goblins sat on a row of high stools behind a long counter. The layout was like a seventeenth century bank. Those goblins didn't even raise their heads when they saw Chen Ang walk in. They focused on their work. Some of them used scales to check the weight and quality of gold coins, some used eyepieces to check gems, and some recorded accounts.
The value of gold coins was very high. One gold coin was about five pounds, and the contract was fifty RMB. Moreover, gold coins were not pure gold. Even in 1990, five pounds could not be exchanged for two grams of gold. If gold coins were pure gold, there would be an absurd result. The value of gold coins was even higher than its value. Even if the financial system of the goblins was rough and backward, they would not be so stupid.
For Chen Ang, although pounds were like paper, he could have as much as he wanted. However, Gringotts Bank also had restrictions on large exchange. Therefore, Chen Ang only exchanged two thousand gold coins in total, which was barely enough for his expenses.
The prices in the world of magic were not high. In Lihen Bookstore, Chen Ang picked up some teaching materials and books, as well as some old books at a low price. It only cost him a few hundred gold coins. Chen Ang flipped through the books and found that, just as he had expected, in the books of the Magi, even in the books about the core spells and spells of the magic system, the knowledge related to magic was extremely incomplete and obscure.
The arcana system that Chen Ang learned was complete, logical, and rational. Even the magic system for mages that was reorganized after the fall of the ancient arcana civilization was much more brilliant than the spell books that were full of chaos, ambiguity, and lack of a system. Most of the magic books in this world were really just spell books.
They only taught you how to wave a wand and cast a spell.
There were detailed explanations on how to hold a wand and how to pronounce an incantation. However, there were very few explanations on the nature of the incantation. Some of the descriptions were vague and weird, like the inarticulate ravings of a crazy old witch. This was closer to the image of most of the Magi that Chen Ang had seen.
What made Lucien confused was whether these magic books that looked clear but were actually a mess of internal logic had educated the wizards in the world of magic like this, or whether these wizards could only write magic books like this.
In the extremely rare alchemy books and potion books written by Dumbledore and Nico Lemaire, Chen Ang did find some knowledge related to the nature of magic. However, these things were not the understanding of the whole world, the universe, and the planes, nor the analysis of the laws of energy and the laws of the world, nor was it a rational language full of mathematical formulas.
Instead, it was a set of things operated by empirical technology and mystical philosophy. It used a lot of symbols and visions, described in emotional, vague language, and based on personal experience. It looked like something useful, but in fact, it was a hybrid product of the set of rules and philosophy and symbolism in the medieval alchemy books.
It could not be said that they did not have exquisite and in-depth research, but it was full of idealism, emotional, and personal feelings, rather than scientific, rational, and based on a set of orderly research rules.
Chen Ang commented, "The research of the wizards in the world of magic is a hybrid of Western mystical idealism and Eastern empirical technology."
"They don't study mathematics!" Chen Ang closed the magic book and sighed. "What else can they study?"
"No wonder Dumbledore won the Merlin Medal. It was because he discovered twelve new applications of dragon blood. The wizards in the world of magic are a group of people who rely on experience and intuition to master the application of their magic instincts. They don't have science, and they don't even have rationality. Most wizards don't even know how to do the four operations. "
"They don't learn, either."
"Their 'learning' is to imitate and wave their wands, imitate the pronunciation of incantations, and then practice again and again to become proficient. Their potions are constantly fumbling according to vague medicinal properties, and a set of potion formulas summed up by luck and experience. It's 70% like China's ancient medicine, but even worse than ancient medicine is that from the beginning, Chinese medicine has a dialectic, and they don't even have the dialectic of yin and yang. They're more like the witch doctors of Wuyue and Chu."
"In essence, that group of wizards is no different from chimpanzees who can learn to use tools. The only difference is that chimpanzees use their natural hands and constantly try to summarize the experience of using tools, while wizards rely on their natural magic power and constantly try to use the experience of magic power, and finally summarize the current magic system."
"They have skills but can't use them. Like a craftsman, they can occasionally invent some new things because of their rich experience, and even extremely delicate inventions, but they don't understand the unseen world at all. The laws of nature at work behind the scenes. "
However, not only did Chen Ang's doubts not solve, but there were also many untested conjectures. There was a certain element of chance in an individual's personality and behavior, but if the sample was expanded to a group, even if it was due to the cultural factors of the group, it would eventually lead to inevitability.
For example, the wizards of the magical world and the Muggles of the normal world, two groups that were physically close at hand and had no objective obstacles in the exchange of information, actually became two groups that were almost completely cut off from each other in reality — this was simply impossible and unscientific!
In theory, as long as a wizard wanted to understand the Muggles, they could easily obtain a large amount of information about the Muggles and reap great benefits from it. When they knew that their magic could bring them a large amount of gold coins, they could take control of the Muggles' large enterprises, and the Auras, who were only a few hundred strong, could not stop them in time.
It was completely inconceivable for such an extraordinary world to be separated from the mortal world.
If this was just an individual, there would be many chance factors that restrained them from participating in the interests of the Muggles' world. But if this sample was expanded to a group of thousands of people — there was no chance at all. It was simply inevitable that there would be such a person who tried to come into contact with the Muggles.
And the wizards who were deeply involved in the Muggles' world would have a great impact on the Sorcerers' world. Then the Sorcerers' world should not be like this today. At least the fairies of Gringotts would improve their financial system with great enthusiasm.
But they did not!
So Chen Ang had a reasonable conjecture, "Perhaps, wizards can't understand rational, objective science at all. Just like dyslexia, wizards are a group that collectively suffers from rational understanding disorder. They are born with magic and can use magic, does this deprive them of the ability to understand science?"
"This is very magical!"
"This needs to be tested experimentally to see if wizards can't understand science and its spirit. Are they unable to learn mathematics, unable to understand the whole set of internal logic of science — do they have an understanding disorder? "
"If that's the case!" Chen Ang smiled and said, "Then everything can be explained clearly. The wizard's bloodline, or magic, deprives them of some of their ability to understand, causing them to have a cognitive distortion of the Muggles that science has penetrated into all aspects of life. While their natural magic gives them magical powers, it also makes them mentally handicapped … "
"Causing the two groups of wizards and Muggles to be so completely separated … They live in isolation, in order to protect themselves."
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