What did it feel like to see...?
Laqi tried to describe that feeling to himself in his heart.
Actually, it could still be described as "touch."
Thinking about it carefully, so-called "vision" was essentially a body folded into a special shape receiving impacts from the outside world. It was merely that those impacts were comparatively weak: photons continuously striking the retina to form images. The retina and photons were in direct contact.
The essence of visual cells was proteins and nerve cells folded by grinding into special shapes, continuously receiving photon impacts, undergoing deformation, and thereby producing comprehensible electrical signals.
Then, in essence, this too was a form of touch, no different from the mutual folding and collision of his body as a manifold being.
Eyes were extraordinarily sensitive, sensitive enough to feel the minute impacts of photons, analyze their differing wavelengths, and turn them into "vision." In truth, it was no different from touch. It was all merely the collision of "membranes."
It was just that, for Laqi, this was somewhat troublesome.
For the Human Race, analyzing such impacts was entirely instinctive. No learning was needed. They did not need to use their brains to understand how to control their heartbeat and breathing. These functions came preloaded, things they were born knowing.
They did not need to know the principles of balance, movement, or pronunciation. Those were hardware functions that came with the installation. They did not need to separately learn memory; that was a built-in algorithm. Even much of visual-spatial perception was ready-made software innate to the brain.
Evolution across countless years had already completed such learning and accumulated iterations of software and hardware. Thus, life achieved inherited evolution within a limited lifespan.
Genes had solved the problem of exploding knowledge. So no one needed to be like