The most shocking thing to Dr. Galileo was not whether the Melting Cut Effect changed with the observer's cognition.
It was that merely changing such a vague concept as melee and ranged weapons could affect reality.
This inevitably made Dr. Galileo ponder a question: What if, back then, humanity had classified every weapon longer than twenty centimeters as ranged, and every weapon shorter than twenty centimeters as melee?
These things had always been conventions established by humanity since the dawn of civilization.
They were not universal laws, but merely definitions humanity had created for its own convenience.
If the thumbs of Homo sapiens had once been unable to bend, then humans would not have been able to use overly heavy weapons and would have needed to use their feet as well. Perhaps humans today would regard all hand-held weapons as ranged weapons and all foot-held weapons as melee weapons.
Then, when these concepts became this vague, would the Melting Cut Effect still manifest accordingly?
What if humanity had never had any concept of melee and ranged weapons at all? Would the Melting Cut Effect still appear?
Sister You seemed to have anticipated Dr. Galileo's question.
"That is precisely what makes Contained Objects supernatural in our eyes."
"It is precisely because humans currently make this distinction that its trait is like this. Melee and ranged are clearly concepts defined by humans, so it only triggers when something 'violates the melee activation rule in human eyes.'"
After hearing this, Dr. Galileo immediately asked, "What if the observer fundamentally has no concept of melee and ranged? Or, suppose all of humanity, including you, no longer had the concepts of melee and ranged in our minds?"
Sister You answered this question that troubled Dr. Galileo with just one sentence.
"Rocks don't have them either."