Chapter 63: Thoughts on the World Will

The conversation in the office continued.

Professor McGonagall continued to voice her opinion.

"For example, if you turned the bone in one of your legs into steel, could you still walk normally?"

Allen shook his head and said, "No, because the left and right legs would have different weights, but after a period of adaptation, I could certainly adapt to it."

"Animals created by transfiguring objects have no intelligence; how would you expect them to adapt?" Professor McGonagall felt a bit amused.

"I can modify the action logic to adapt to this body structure," Allen insisted stubbornly.

"You are thinking far too simply about modifying the action logic of the transfiguration target; it is absolutely much harder than you imagine!" Professor McGonagall smiled even more happily.

"Moreover, the human brain's precision in perceiving various data of the transfiguration result is limited; how can you guarantee that the steel bone you transfigure this time won't be slightly longer than the last one?" Professor McGonagall delivered the final blow to Allen.

Allen fell silent at once; he felt that everything Professor McGonagall said was correct.

After quite a while, he spoke quietly, "Why didn't we need to be so precise when we used transfiguration spells before?"

"That is because your transfiguration results are things that already exist in the world, so you only need to think of the characteristics of the transfiguration result in your mind to transfigure it; you only need to make the key data precise, which is also the wonder of magic," Professor McGonagall added.

Allen fell silent again; he felt Professor McGonagall's logic was flawless.

"So now, regarding your transfiguration of two types of Ou... Ou... what was it again?" Professor McGonagall obviously couldn't remember the name Ultraman.

"Ultraman!" Allen said, feeling a bit discouraged.

"Right, so do you still have doubts about whether the difficulty of transfiguring two different Ultramans is different?"

"No more, thank you! Professor." Allen barely pulled himself together, stood up, and prepared to take his leave.

Professor McGonagall stepped forward, patted Allen's shoulder, and advised, "Having whimsical ideas is a good thing, but learning magic still requires being down-to-earth; do not aim too high and neglect the basics. You are a smart child, and I look forward to your future."

"Okay, Professor, I remember! Then I will go back first." Allen bid farewell politely.

After leaving Professor McGonagall's office, Allen discovered he had nowhere to go, so under the guidance of his body's inertia, he arrived at the library.

He found that the library was not open today either, and only then realized that today was still the Christmas holiday.

So he sat at the library entrance and let his mind wander.

Professor McGonagall's words kept echoing in his mind.

He vaguely felt a trace of inspiration drifting in his mind, but he couldn't quite grasp it.

A question that had long troubled him surfaced in his heart again.

What exactly is the World Will that can realize various magical effects?

Then Allen discovered he had grasped that inspiration.

Professor McGonagall said that if the transfiguration result is something that already exists in the world, one only needs to think of the characteristics of the transfiguration result in the mind to transfigure it.

This behavior feels like a computer searching a database based on characteristics!

Could it be that because the World Will is something similar to artificial intelligence, many of its behaviors are so much like a computer's?

First, the invocation method of all spells is particularly like function calls in programming.

And the transfiguration spell is especially obvious in this aspect regarding the transfiguration result; suppose the World Will has a very large database containing data on all known things in the world.

When casting a transfiguration spell, one needs to send information about the transfiguration result to the World Will; if the transfiguration result is a known thing, one only needs to send some characteristics of the transfiguration result to the World Will, and the World Will can match the corresponding result using these characteristics,

and then manifest this result onto the transfiguration target, so the difficulty is relatively low.

But if the transfiguration target is an unknown thing, the World Will's database has no data on this thing, so when casting the spell, one must describe every detail of the transfiguration result clearly in the mind, only then can the World Will know how to manifest your transfiguration result; otherwise, the spell might fail, or the World Will might match a similar result and manifest it.

For example, a transfiguration spell is like ordering food at a restaurant; the casting process is your ordering process, the chef is the World Will, and the final transfiguration result is the cooked dish.

If the dish you order is on the menu, the chef will make it very quickly.

If the dish you order is not on the menu, you can only describe the entire cooking process in detail to the chef; if you describe it detailed enough, the chef can make the dish you want according to your instructions.

If you do not describe it clearly enough, the chef might not be able to make the whole dish, which is spell failure. Or the chef might make some strange dishes according to their own understanding and experience, which is a transfiguration accident.

Allen buried his chin in his arms, not knowing why he thought of the parameters and program-like structures on the light screen again.

Professor McGonagall was right; so many parameters, such complex logic, are simply beyond the human brain to modify and process, unless there is a computer that allows him to constantly debug. Allen thought silently in his heart.

Debug!

Allen suddenly found this word strange yet familiar.

It was strange because he hadn't done this for a long time, and familiar because he did it every day before crossing over.

He suddenly remembered that the second parameter of the transfiguration spell was a program-like thing, and this program-like thing was composed of ancient runes; at that time, he had even speculated that ancient runes were a programming language.

If ancient runes are a programming language, then couldn't he use ancient runes to debug?

If he could use ancient runes as code to debug repeatedly, couldn't he transfigure all kinds of things that do not exist in this world?

Although the whole process would be very difficult.

Thinking of this, Allen realized another question: this matter is so difficult, what is the point of him doing it?

Allen quickly found the answer in his heart.

To prepare for battle!

Since he came to Hogwarts, he had increasingly realized that he would definitely be drawn into this wizarding war; if he could not avoid being drawn in, then he must start preparing for the battles to come from now on.

So he is now very interested in everything that can be used in combat.

Previously, the spell "Serpensortia" gave him a great surprise and opened up his imagination; he gradually felt that summoning just a snake was not very interesting; it would be better if he could summon other things that could be customized.

And the characteristic of infinite possibilities in the transfiguration spell showed him the direction of his future combat style.