When Mahad's eyes turned into the shape of apples, Mo Qiong knew things had gone badly. Master Gou had once told him...
That was one of the Golden Apple's properties: divinity activation.
The Golden Apple was the Little Brotherhood's most important Contained Object. Its specific properties were unclear, but Mo Qiong had learned a mere glimpse of them from Zigley, the Assassin who had surrendered to the Blue White Society.
Divinity activation meant suppressing a person's conscious personality beneath their subconscious, replacing the self with the id.
It made a person watch helplessly as their own body did what the brain itself considered the most correct thing.
If personality was the master of the brain, then the subconscious was its steward.
The conscious mind could not analyze the vast amount of data the human body encountered every second. Only the emotionless, thoughtless subconscious could process it.
When a human suddenly judged that something seemed to be approaching from behind, it was not the conscious self making that judgment. Rather, the subconscious had gathered countless pieces of outside information fed back through the pores, analyzed the results, and concluded that something was approaching from behind.
The conscious mind merely received an inexplicable result and called it the Sixth Sense. In reality, it was the result silently calculated by the subconscious.
All human judgments were the subconscious silently processing data, then passing on the portion the conscious mind could understand.
That was the difference between a calculator and the person using a computer. The difference between software and the person controlling the software.
For the time being, the divinity of the Mechanical Heart seemed to be subordinate to personality, because it had no dreams or goals of its own.
A person's dreams were the divinity's dreams. Without the personality, the body would