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Memory and information are combined and "reality" is completed there.


* KOS-MOS start-up experiment

After the rampaging accident that occurred during the development of KOS-MOS, 
Shion became the person in charge and without showing the real world 
experiments, only the start-up experiments in the Encephalon were repeated.

These experiments only detected the theoretical merit of the data, but due to 
the fact that it occurs in an extremely real virtual space, one can collect 
data that is comparable to real world experiments. The one thing that is 
fundamentally lacking is the abilities and functions of the hardware in KOS-MOS 
real body. Whether or not it will function just as the software tells it to. 
Until a real world experiment is done, positive proof cannot be obtained; 
without an anti Gnosis tactics KOS-MOS start-up experiment, no matter how well 
the experiments in the encephalon go, it is nothing more than an empty theory.

* Stage creation

The KOS-MOS start-up experiment took place within the data of ruins from the 
end of the 20th century. There is no experimental reason for choosing this 
place. Up to then various situations were hypothesized and any number of 
locations were constructed within the encephalon. That the end of the 20th 
century was chosen as the stage to be created was nothing more than a simple 
whim.

However, was that a coincidence? An experiment that used a stage creation from 
the age of the discovery of the Zohar on Earth was to be KOS-MOS' last start-up 
experiment in the encephalon. Synchronicity, as Jung called it. Synchronicity. 
One can also see here the "coincidences" and "probabilities" that can be 
explained by the general concept of the collective unconscious, a higher 
(order) structure, the Unus Mundus.

As long as there is data, the encephalon can construct any time or place. There 
is one reason that the places that Shion and the others had been to could be 
reconstructed in the encephalon one after the other. That is because it was 
using the memories of the person accessing it as the source of information.

On the occasions that they dived into KOS-MOS' mainframe, the same function was 
used to construct the encephalon with the memories of the divers as the base.

Using the memories of the people who are uploading records of their actions 
into the UMN as a base, it pulls out the place that those people had been, 
things they had seen and it also pulls out various information pooled in the 
UMN concerning that location; it combines the memories and information and 
creates the "real thing" there. It is possible to reconstruct locations in 
memories, explore the inside, and recover them because the data in the UMN 
compensates for the deficits in memory information, completes information for 
unexplored locations and constructs that location.

* Canton Dream Syndrome (or vain dream of wealth and splendor syndrome)

A commoner (???) boy who failed the Chinese higher civil service examinations 
borrowed a strange pillow called "glory becomes as the will" from an old Taoist 
man who was boiling chestnuts at a place called (cant read this word) Canton 
and took a nap. Once he had done this, amazingly, after his nap Lu Sheng's luck 
and power had improved in an instant and he was able to stand at the apex of 
wealth and authority. Lu Sheng was very pleased, however, when he suddenly came 
to, he smelled chestnuts boiling. When he opened his eyes, the old Taoist man 
was boiling chestnuts at the foot of the pillow. Furthermore, the chestnuts 
were not any more boiled than when he had borrowed the strange pillow. In that 
brief period of time, in the dream he had while napping, Rozan (another name?) 
had dreamed about his own glory in a detailed dream. His love, the war, the 
victory, all of these things were events in a dream.

Life may be a dream.

As one can see from "The dream of Canton," this kind of concept also existed in 
ancient China. Also, in the second half of the 20th century the same concept 
appeared in a movie made in America and it swept across the world.

The concentration on this uneasy feeling never completely disappears, but it 
operates in a fixed cycle where some kind of trigger causes it to capture the 
hearts of the people creating a visible trend of emotional turbulence.

The same phenomena occurred in the current age as well, right after the 
encephalon came into general use. People who were seriously troubled by the 
problem of "is this reality or the encephalon?" started appearing. The 
condition of embracing this uneasy feeling was called "Canton Dream Syndrome."

The mass media took up this story and sensationalized it as a new tragedy born 
from the encephalon, however, this is hardly a new thing and rather is a 
popular uneasy feeling that we have been intimate with since ancient times.

* Salvage

In the event that something causes the encephalon to be destroyed, it has a 
great effect on the mental activity of the person who is diving. At the time 
the encephalon is being destroyed, it is possible to conduct a salvaging dive 
in order to pull the diver out. This process entails measuring the location of 
the rescue target in the encephalon, accessing the point in such a way that 
ignores the laws of the constructed world, and dragging them out. Because of 
this, from the point of view of the person who is already diving in the 
encephalon, the salvage diver who is tearing through the space seems to appear 
very suddenly.

Probability of unchanging corresponding phenomena…90.84223%


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Translated by Rox-e.

TRANSLATOR NOTES:
The Canton Dream Syndrome section is very poorly translated. It was just really 
confusing and hard to understand. Lots of difficult characters. Despite the lack 
of clarity, I think that the point gets across. Maybe.

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