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As long as the changes were being made to our memories, it was plausible to argue that this was some sort of hypnosis, something done by Retrospec to our brains. However:

1) The experiment to disconnect from electronics that may be affected by Retrospec returned no results. We still felt the effects while disconnected.

2) This "shrinking" and the holes in reality cannot be explained by hypnosis. They are very real.

At what point do we begin to question the fabric of reality itself?

-N

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Perhaps.
At this point, however, I'm finding few competing hypotheses.

I am starting to wonder if part of the problem is that we are simply assuming too many things because of what we are familiar with. This app already defies imagination, does it not?

If I may ask, is there some sort of information that would help you start coming up with a new theory?

I'm not sure. Something that radically changes the shape of how we conceive of these things, perhaps.
But the circumstantial evidence right now is very clear in what it's pointing to.
Whether I like it or no.

Anything, then, that would point to Retrospec being a 'normal company' on some level might qualify? Something where we could define them, put limits on them, understand them.

Instead of this nigh unstoppable force?

They don't have to be limitless to be functionally so in the worst case scenario.
In fact, even if we assume this is some kind of simulation over which they preside like gods, there would still be rules. Presumably.
Unless they're capable of changing them at will.

I think that I understand what you mean, about simulation. As if we were somehow hooked into virtual reality and could not tell the difference. If they could program it then, it would be the same difference.

The QR Codes that the Officer found might support that thought. But, that could be any of a number of things too, and the idea that my life is a simulation is almost worse than 'they are gods.'

It's unpleasant in a different way.
If this is a simulation, perhaps, what does that make us?

Users that are having trouble telling between our reality and the fantasy programmed in, trying desperately to log off? Let us hope this isn't the case. That sounds awful.

It certainly isn't a pleasant mental image,
no.
Though, there are two further possible forks:
One, as you said, our physical bodies are being kept alive in "reality" somewhere, and this is merely a projection of our self. In essence, "The Matrix."
Two, we are completely artificial constructs. Computer programs, as it were. There is no "real us."

Or, at the very least, these are the most common fictional options, since those usually come from minds that consider such possibilities at the edge of science.

You've been thinking about this a lot, haven't you Naoto?

[She really should be worried about him, honestly. he thought about stuff like this too much at times.]

I don't believe it has anything to do with fiction.
If this is a simulation, it is literally the only two options available.
Either we exist/existed elsewhere in a different time and space
Or we never existed at all.

Frankly I don't understand how more people aren't thinking about this as often as I am.

Your mind is an unusual one, Naoto, and I mean that as a compliment. You think from a variety of angles that most people would never consider. That, and I doubt that I am the only one who does not truly wish to believe the worst possibilities right now.

Thank you? I think?
All I want is the truth. Even if it's a difficult one. I can't turn away.

It is meant as a complement, I assure you. We will find that truth, though, one way or another. I am now more willing than ever to fight to have it.

But I think we are going around in circles now. We will speak later, yes?

Later, then.
Take care.

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