The Shackles Sought by the Sea God

Because of the differences in their life forms, the human race and the Sea God would forever have all manner of disagreements. Many principles humans understood innately were as difficult for the Sea God to comprehend as mysticism. And some simple concepts in the Sea God's thinking were as obscure as computer language to humans.

The simplest example was that humanity's conception of space and time followed Euclidean Geometry, while the Sea God were born with the perspective of Luo's Geometry.

Although these two geometries were equivalent to a certain extent, that was enough to create enormous difficulties in communication.

The same was true in other respects.

One obvious example was "self-awareness." Although the Sea God now had no real barriers when communicating with humans, humans at least found it difficult to understand their views on the matter of "self-consciousness."

At least, that was what Wang Qi had thought at first.

Therefore, he found Mi's approach somewhat absurd.

But when he considered Senior Sister Mi's question, he realized that he had actually never thought about "I."

—No, perhaps he had instinctively avoided thinking about it.

In the first years after his transmigration, he had once believed that he had fallen into a brain-in-a-vat experiment, desperately trying to find clues or evidence leading to "reality."

And now, Wang Qi discovered that he really did seem to have fallen into a "brain in a vat." At this moment, he instead had no idea how to prove that "I am me."

If "the current me" was the thought of a brain created by Mi, then how should the self-awareness originating from "Wang Qi" in "this me's" memories be counted?

At that moment, Mi stood up.

Mi looked no older than ten and was extremely petite. Even standing, she was only slightly taller than