Serial Experiments Lain

Lain Iwakura:
No matter where you go, everyone's connected.

Chisa Yomoda:
There was no reason for me to stay in the real world any longer. In the real world, it didn't matter if I was there or not. When I realized that, I was no longer afraid of losing my body.

Lain Iwakura:
Why? Why did you die?

Navi [Dictating Chisa's response]:
God is here.

Iwakura, Yasuo:
Let me give you one little warning.

Lain Iwakura:
Huh?

Iwakura, Yasuo:
When it's all said and done, the Wired is just a medium of communication and the transfer of information. You mustn't confuse it with the real world. Do you understand what I'm warning you about?

Lain Iwakura:
You're wrong.

Iwakura, Yasuo:
Huh?

Lain Iwakura:
The border between the two isn't all that clear. I'll be able to enter it soon. In full range. Full motion. I'll translate myself into it.

Iwakura, Yasuo:
Even with a top of the line civilian Navi, you couldn't.

Lain Iwakura:
I can do it. I've modified mine.

Iwakura, Yasuo:
A Psyche processor, huh? But...

Lain Iwakura:
Don't worry. I'm still me.

Iwakura, Yasuo:
Sometimes I wonder.

Lain Iwakura:
[gasp]

Miho Iwakura:
The wired might actually be thought of as a highly advanced upper layer of the real world. In other words, physical reality is nothing but an illusion, a hologram of the information that flows to us through the wired.

Lain Iwakura:
But ma...

Miho Iwakura:
This is because the body, physical motion, the activity of the human brain is merely a physical phenomenon, simply caused by synapses delivering electrical impulses.

Lain Iwakura:
But mom, I...

Miho Iwakura:
The physical body exists at a less evolved plane only to verify one's existence in the universe.

Lain Iwakura:
Are you really, truly my mother?

Miho Iwakura:
[disappears]

Lain Iwakura:
Are you?

Lain Iwakura:
People only have substance within the memories of other people. And that's why there were all kinds of mes. There weren't a lot of mes per se, I was just inside all sorts of people, that's all.