Intelligent consciousnesses outside of Matrioshka brains may communicate via wormhole networks. The generic term for consciousness is "shes pa", and includes the six sense consciousnesses. The Awerness absorbed entire worlds, devouring the people's consciousnesses. This causes Minerva to attempt to upload the consciousnesses of all the islands' inhabitants. Boxed consciousnesses are stored in the Resurrection Hub and can be unboxed. Bakhtin defines it as "the event of interaction between autonomous and internally unfinalized consciousnesses". Stewart performed a mind scan on the two recruits and somehow exchanged their consciousnesses. The fifth chapter discusses the Eight Consciousnesses, including the "Storehouse Consciousnesses". Uniquely, Greninja and Ash are able to temporarily link their respective consciousnesses during battle. When this active transformation is complete, the other seven consciousnesses are also transformed. Severian does so and thus he acquires hundreds of consciousnesses that the Autarch once had. He sends only their consciousnesses back, because physical time travel is impossible. Despite this success, Team Flash cannot do anything about his other counterparts' consciousnesses.