Above The Sky

Chapter 2113 - 53: Tree of the End, Black Hole Engine (7200)_2

Because it does not have self-awareness, it will not be identified by the Aether, nor will it be noticed by the ’Aether’.

In other words, as the Aether embodiment of the Star God, it is difficult to observe the End.

Just like a bat that cannot receive ultrasound can only perceive a blank space in front of it, a Star God that cannot receive ’Aether Feedback’ cannot determine the existence of the End, and can only confirm through various indirect feedback that ’there is a huge and troublesome monster here’.

And this monster cannot even recognize itself, has no ’desire’, no ’dreams’, and is essentially unimaginably large. The Aether cannot grant it a soul; instead, it uses the Aether as a tool to transcend time and space.

This sounds incredible, but it actually involves a very serious question.

——What is the use of self-awareness?

The self-awareness of ordinary humans is actually quite slow; before they realize their decisions, the decisions have actually already been made. It’s like after a person lifts their hand, it takes a short period to clearly realize it.

’The self that realizes my behavior’ is not actually the true decision-maker, but an observer. ’My’ actions are not actually governed by ’self-awareness’.

And the phenomenon of ’blindsight’ in people with partially damaged brains yet normal visual systems further highlights this point.

As everyone knows, humans do not actually ’see’ with their ’eyes’, but rather ’see’ with their ’brains’. The eyes are merely optical signal capture devices, a display apparatus. Everything people ’see’ is a picture imagined by the brain, greatly differing from the real world.

Patients with blindsight lack the ability to imagine images. His eyes can still capture light, and his brain receives the relevant information, but they do not know how to turn this information into images.

Regardless, even if the patient cannot see, his ’body’ will still use other methods to react as if he ’saw’.

A blindsight patient walking down the street is, to himself, blind, with a pitch-black view, yet his body will act on its own, suddenly stepping back — in the next instant, a truck roars past the spot he had just been standing.

His brain received the signal and responded, but the ’self-awareness’ did not know.

Anton-Babinski syndrome is the opposite of blindsight: Due to certain brain damage, they cannot actually see, but they insist they can because the brain ’imagines’ various optical signals, deceiving the patient.

’Consciousness’ may exist, but it is not the true controller — human bodies inherently possess a wisdom beyond the imagination of many, their abilities surpassing self-awareness itself.

’Self-awareness’ does not equate to ’wisdom’.

A ’philosophical zombie’ without self-awareness can also be very intelligent; it can mimic humans, seemingly possessing emotions, just like a human, but it truly lacks emotions and self. Its ’wisdom’ determines that mimicking humans enables better survival.

This point is something that humans have already realized.

Ian couldn’t help but recall what Hiliard said when first teaching him the ’Sublimation Path’.

[——Humans are not a species that can directly see the Logos; what is seen through the eyes is like seeing objects through a mirror, all are illusory and blurry.]

The brain is deceptive, deceiving itself merely for ’comfort’, and perhaps the ’subjectivity’ of self-awareness is the result of self-deception by the brain.

Thus, the Heart Light Body came into being.

Human ’self-awareness defects’ and ’blindsight’ phenomena have been overcome by the Aether. At the Third Energy Level, the Heart Light Body is the concentration of self-awareness, controlling the body without any delay, where consciousness controls the brain and body, rather than the reverse.

The Heart Light Body also represents the integration of human soul and body, allowing perfect control over innate instincts, driving neuro-reflexes with pure will, using sheer willpower to move bodies that theoretically cannot move.

This ’borrowing illusion to cultivate truth’ is the essence of the human Sublimation Path, and reaching its peak is immortality and the Star God.

But what if there is a type of life form that is inherently ’true’?

For example, at the cosmic singularity of The End, amidst the conglomeration of all information from the universe’s birth to its conclusion, such an existence emerges.

Or, a regular occurring ’phenomenon’ appeared, which could self-replicate, protect self-existence, and continuously propagate.

A kind of ’life’.

It is the gravitational waves themselves that contain all information from the universe’s birth to its end, generated by the Doomsday Black Hole, conforming to the fixed bending of spatial axes, moving along the time axis, requiring ’infinite time’ to fall into the ’singularity of The End’.

Everything is contained within it because all material information in the universe returns to the singularity of The End following the ’Great Collapse’, allowing it to directly touch ’Logos’, ’Dao’, ’Akashic Records’, or any concept used to describe this ’infinite knowledge’.

——Because it knows everything, there is no need for thought, inquiry, curiosity, doubt, nor does it think it’s imperfect.

——Being aware of everything means it is both one and all, both power and wisdom, both reincarnation and transcendence, both end and creation.