What is consciousness?
Is it the brain? A storage device? The so-called ethereal soul?
Perhaps it is none of these.
Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
To answer these three existential questions of self-awareness and conscious awakening, only one thing is truly needed: memory!
Memory is the source of consciousness, its true dwelling place.
Without memory, consciousness will change, or even disappear.
And for a super artificial intelligence, the thing that can affect its conscious existence is its source memory—or, in other words, its core database.
Shen Feng and Jingwei had already reached a consensus on these matters during their very first information exchange.
To eliminate Poseidon, the most fundamental approach was to strike its core database.
