Evolution
What is consciousness?
According to the dictionary definition, it is the act of recognizing oneself or things in the waking state.
However, if we discuss more deeply about what ‘consciousness’ is, the story will grow without limit.
Biologically, consciousness is an ability acquired by living things in order to survive more smoothly.
survival of the fittest.
All living things eventually mutate, and if the mutated organism adapts to the environment, it will survive, otherwise it will die.
This consciousness was also a concept as one of the survival strategies that was born in such a process.
In order for living things to sustain their own life, a continuous supply of energy is required.
The Birth of Life, the most primitive form of life, may have been unconscious.
It must have been metabolized by simply receiving energy from its surroundings, which is naturally obtained through means such as the sun.
However, for reasons such as the sunlight being blocked by the shadows of other objects or falling into the deep sea where light cannot reach, living things die without absorbing energy anymore, and in order to survive more smoothly and reliably, an active form of energy absorption is required. would have done
For example, snow
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Just that alone, living things can absorb energy more smoothly, and the possibility of death due to lack of energy is lowered.
When a stimulus is applied, it moves in that direction.
A very simple mechanism, but this was probably the beginning of the most basic ritual.
The next step was probably avoidance from the threat.
In order to move away from the stronger creatures trying to eat itself or the environment threatening safety, a consciousness to judge the conditions was necessary, and the creatures that awakened it survived through natural selection evolution.
And it develops with imagination.
Up until now, it was a direct response to external stimuli such as seeing light, feeling the environment, or smelling a natural enemy, but it now requires imagination to gain more energy or to survive more smoothly.
An imagination that can deduce where the prey may be even though it is invisible to its own eyes.
An imagination that doesn’t smell, but can predict where a natural enemy lurks to threaten you.
The consciousness of living things has evolved that way.
So, what about the consciousness of the soul, the substance we call the mind?
Soul matter that can exist on its own does not require energy.
It simply exists just like ordinary matter.
Unlike living things, ‘consciousness’ is not required.
Still, Leon knows.
The soul has consciousness.
Thanks to this, Leon was able to have ‘Leon’s consciousness’ as a dual-type creature with a soul with the identity of Leon, and the spirits can move by their own judgment, and they can now cast off their bodies and do mental activity even in the state of being a spirit body. because you can continue
The ritual that Livid, the demon of nightmares, was presided over was just that.
In the beginning, the Seven Gods created the world.
But was it really ‘necessary’ to them?
They were not creatures.
It didn’t even require energy to survive.
From the moment they were just born, they had ‘consciousness’ and decided to create a ‘world’ with judgment that started from imagination.
And now, such ‘consciousness’ has been deprived of Leon.
At this moment, everything that makes up Leon is nothing more than a simple matter that has lost consciousness.
An object in the form of Leon made of soul matter.
However, it attacked the ‘threat element’ by moving the object in the form of Leon and moving the soul matter made of black lightning even when consciousness was cut off.
[what······?]
Livid could barely dodge Leon’s attack.
There is no direct means of attack, but she was also one of the seven greatest demon gods.
Of course, Leon’s consciousness was intact, and there was a high possibility that he could not have avoided it if he had spread Gungnir.
[This······.]
And Livid noticed.
[Is it a spirit? No, he is weak, but he has a divine nature.]
The spirit of order, Dice.
It was none other than Dice that moved Leon’s body now.
After ascending to the new realm, Dice’s consciousness weakened.
No matter how powerful they were, the environment in the new world was so harsh that even Berseria, made up of the spirit fragments of a demon, could hardly come to their senses.
Naturally, as Dice, who had barely obtained the qualifications of a god by absorbing the souls of some demons, the limit was to simply not lose his mind.
[It seems that you have sensed the crisis of your master and gained control of the body, but it is not. Don’t even take away your consciousness.]
Livid stretched out his hand and once again manifested his powers, but Leon and Dice, who took possession of Leon’s body, were not spared.
[Four years, you have fragments of my power!]
Dice has already absorbed some of the nightmare’s powers.
God’s ability to deal with the essence of consciousness.
“You can’t hurt your master, can you?”
A thunderbolt of terrifying power poured out from Dice’s outstretched fist.
Not only was it powerful, but it was so precisely controlled at the quantum level that it was efficient and even sophisticated.
However, that alone could not be a threat to the great people called demon gods.
Leon was able to defeat the demons because he could only use ‘Gungnir’.
One in a thousand, one in a billion, one in a thousand, one in a year, one in a year.
Magic that can make even the smallest possibility a reality if it exists.
However, Dice’s ability did not reach there.
At the most, the magic allowed to her was Blink.
[Your attack does not work against us.]
Ten demon gods jumped towards Dice at the same time.
Dice deployed a blink, jumped over the space, and blew out an electric shock once more.
However, its power was very small, but it was slightly weakened.
Livid confirmed this and put a twisted smile on her lips.
[Unlike him, there seems to be a limit to the mental power of four years. How long can you stand against us? Quietly give up and give up your body. Then don’t let me save you.]
“You don’t like it?”
[Do you not want to live?]
“No way. But will the master wake up soon?”
[Although it is a spirit that has awakened to the divine nature, it lacks the ability to grasp reality. your master is dead The form of the soul is intact, but as long as consciousness is lost, the spirit is already dead.]
“To borrow the words of the master, are you arrogant?”
Livid’s expression frowned at Dice’s reply.
[what?]
“Are you overestimating your worth? Are you saying that my master won’t die just because someone like you used shallow tricks? I’m losing my mind for a while now, but will the master wake up soon?”
[···gibberish.]
Livid said so, but her expression did not open again.
He sensed an ominous energy from Dice’s confident tone of voice.
Like a prophecy foretelling the future, I felt the anxiety that it would come true.
[Even if what you say is true, will you be able to survive until then with your power?]
Power bursts out
The powers of demons that Leon had grasped until now.
A power that was predicted in advance that it might be realized through quantum magic.
A power that I could not have imagined until I experienced it myself.
All of those things started rushing to kill Leon’s body that Dice controlled.
Dice desperately resisted him.
knowledge is there
Leon has only lost consciousness, but his intelligence is still there.
And even Dice, which was connected to the spirit through contract magic, was able to deal with the powers he had grasped through Leon’s intelligence in his own way.
Because Leon’s knowledge had a plan to counter that power.
If there was a problem, they were new powers that even Leon could not foresee in advance.
Leon’s soul had knowledge and intelligence, but his consciousness died and he had no imagination to guess new facts, nor the judgment to come up with a plan for it.
However, only the stimulus was transmitted.
As I said, Leon’s consciousness is gone, but his intelligence is still functioning.
Naturally, the sensory function of the soul is also intact.
What you see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and feel with your skin are all accumulated in the soul as information.
And there, as Dice swore, a new bud of consciousness was awakening.
Dice was desperately resisting the pouring of powers, but of course, injuries large and small were accumulating on his body.
Pain is painful.
The reason that the sense of pain is particularly intense and painful compared to other senses is that it is a means of awakening consciousness through an instinct to actively avoid or cope in a crisis situation as one of the survival strategies for living things to survive.
‘hurt······.’
However, the consciousness is still at the level of a newborn baby.
It took a very long time to reach a level of consciousness high enough to go beyond Dice and freely develop quantum magic.
So, the newly born Leon gave up on quantum magic.
Suddenly, Leon’s soul lost its shape and began to crumble.
“what?!”
Dice was perplexed, but Livid smiled with a smile of conversion.
[Look at that. The unconscious soul eventually loses its self and its form and begins to collapse.]
Leon’s soul was created through magic and quantum magic.
A soul created through quantum magic to overcome the limits of the mental power of the human body.
And the spirit of young Leon, who had just begun to awaken, gave up quantum magic.
The primitive consciousness judged like this.
‘The reason I’m sick is because I have a form. Then, if there is no form, there is no need to be sick.’
It was a form of self-destructive behavior that could never exist as a living thing, but it was a natural choice for a consciousness newly awakened in the soul.
Biological consciousness has been developed through natural selection evolution.
Only the organisms that survive trial and error through time and the mutation of the gene have been passed on to the next generation and developed.
However, Leon’s consciousness, which had just undergone mutation, had no room for trial and error.
If the consciousness makes a wrong judgment, it is only a form of natural selection.
However, Dice, who was at first bewildered, soon understood.
“Aren’t you forgetting something?”
[Are you forgetting?]
“The soul of my master has attained the Godhead. Do you think that the ‘truth’ governed by the master will break the rules just because the form is destroyed?”
At that moment, Livid opened her eyes and shouted.
[Everyone, attack now! We must neutralize him now and seal it!]
But it’s already too late.
The body that Dice had control over, and the soul matter, were scattered.
form disappeared.
However, from the beginning, Leon obtained the enlightenment of all water to awaken the present spirit body.
The oneness of water means becoming one with nature.
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Just exist
However, Leon, who had been deprived of consciousness through the Nightmare Demon, nature awakened a new consciousness.
‘sick. I don’t like being in pain. So I remove the cause that bothers me.’
Leon’s consciousness was evolving rapidly.