KOS-MOS
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Give me your pain. Will pain fill me?

* Individual attributes

Outer-surface appearance of gender: female
Outer-surface appearance of age: roughly 18 years old
Height: 167cm {~5'6"}
Weight: 92kg {~203 lbs}

* Affiliation

Vector Industries First R&D Division.

* Function

It is the system that was built to aim for the possible existence that can deal 
with all phenomena, and gives priority to the three principles of logic, 
efficiency, and duty. Logic and efficiency are things that support the basis of 
order. As is natural, conflict is also contained within all phenomena. Because 
of this, it was given the name "Kosmos Obey Strategic Multiple Operation 
System". And the nickname that was taken from these initials is "KOS-MOS".

KOS-MOS is a word that corresponds to the entire system that interacts 
logically with phenomena and controls various situations in order to execute a 
duty, and in its original meaning, it is not something that corresponds to the 
single android with the form of a young woman.

However, people are existences that tend to apply their own ideas on a subject 
that is right before their eyes. For instance, it is easy to comprehend the 
rising of things like computers and UMN agent-systems. Suppose an error 
occurred in a computer that is being operated. At that moment, suppose an agent 
character is displayed, explains the circumstances, and exhibits restorative 
effort; then that user is not moved to emotion against the programmer that 
created the program that caused the error; instead it is that they are moved to 
emotion towards the agent character.

Also, even knowing that a companion is a machine that [merely] personifies and 
reacts, humans completely show a response. In the latter-half of the 20th 
century, experiments like the following were conducted. Personal computers that 
were used at that time were made to perform specific operations on test 
subjects. Afterwards, the test subjects were asked for their impressions on 
such things as the managementivity and stream of the operations. When the same 
computer that performed the operation asks for impressions on "How was the 
manner of my work?", the rate that the test subjects select "good" rises, but 
when a separate computer asks, "How was the manner of the previous computer's 
work?", a scattered dispersement is seen in the assessment. From this result, 
it was understood that people are giving a "compliment" to the computer the 
same as they would to a human. Incidentally, those same test subjects were not 
ignorant people concerning computers-- they were people like programmers and 
engineers and such who dealt with computers on a daily basis.

The constructed technology of man keeps progressing at a surprising degree of 
speed. One by one, it keeps producing existences that have not been reached up 
to then. Due to that, there keeps on being upheavals of the environment that 
surrounds ourselves. However, the human brain that reacts to that cannot evolve 
to catch up with the progressing rate of technology. The human brain has not 
changed much since ancient times.

A TV screen is being watched. A human face is projected onto there. Both a 
large face and a small face are projected, and a familiar feeling is remembered 
from the face that is projected larger. Both a physical and a psychological 
closeness is sensed. This is understood by the theory that even though it does 
not go beyond the image that was projected on top of the level surface 
"monitor", because the brain completely grasps the image with a feeling of 
distance within a space of reality, it misunderstands as if the character of 
the image is actually near to itself, and thus an illusion is produced.

A sensation of personification such as this is completely allowing for the 
establishment of the conceptual system called "KOS-MOS" as a word that 
corresponds to the single android with the form of a young woman. If KOS-MOS 
were to be mass-produced, like the MOMO Prototype and the 100-series 
observational Realians, proper-noun and common-noun names would be created, and 
it is considered that it would come to be used for distinction.

* Existence as a weapon

The significance of KOS-MOS's existence is to surpass every existence by being 
an anti-Gnosis weapon. That was the pretext under which she was developed, and 
it is also the motive for her practical use. However, among her developers, she 
was not a weapon, and it is seen that they tended to find pleasure in allowing 
her to evolve as an existence that imitates a human. From the 20th through the 
21st centuries, the concept of a human-shaped robot sought by America was a 
design with the function to allow the merging of a heterogeneously existing 
"robot" into human daily life. However, the concept of a human-shaped robot 
sought by Japan was one which strongly promoted the direction towards 
artificial humans who imitated humans themselves. The development of KOS-MOS is 
something nearer to this latter ideology.

However, behind the scenes of her development, there is a mystery that was kept 
hidden, and the conceptualization and the motive for her outward appearance 
such as this is not understood. Those who understand that, like chaos and 
Wilhelm etc, are only a very few people, and even those who participated in her 
development do not know.

KOS-MOS said, "Your pain, please give it to me," and, "Will pain fulfill me?" 
These words rise to the surface from out the darkness that is being concealed 
behind the scenes of her development, and by knowing that meaning, the real 
purpose of KOS-MOS's development and the true form of the existence called 
"KOS-MOS" also becomes known.

Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena... 90.33336%

p.148. chaos and KOS-MOS (Connection)
p.149. KOS-MOS and Shion (Connection)
p.070. Vector Industries (Organization)
p.122. The Development of KOS-MOS (Development of KOS-MOS)
p.124. KOS-MOS's Eye Color (Development of KOS-MOS)
p.124. Archetype (Development of KOS-MOS)
p.099. Substance Transmission (Infrastructure)


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