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standalonehuman: (TogusaWorstIdea)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-04 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Just. What if they just dumped it all at once? The memories, they just overlay whatever they want us to know over what we know now, the whole thing. Wouldn't that be worse?

I keep getting so angry every time I almost come up with a reasonable answer for why they're doing this. But I can't let the anger get in the way of the investigation.

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-05 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Worse in that it'd be incredibly overwhelming?
Yes, probably.
But it may not be what they're trying to accomplish.
I'm almost of the idea that it's an experiment of some sort-- perhaps our consternation at remembering these apparent past lives is what they're looking for.
Some twisted experiment about how people will reconcile learning about an entirely new identity.

At any rate, you're correct. Anger doesn't help.
standalonehuman: (TogusaPonder)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-06 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's all arbitrary, the memories, they're making it up wholesale, then they could be trying to just reprogram an entire population. Turn everyone into what they want. We're the test case. See how well it works, how much they would resist that.

Which is so dumb, though? Because every time they rewrite reality, isn't it everyone else who gets changed? Nobody notices blue any more.

Maybe I was right in the first place and we're really the control group.
truedetective: (08)

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
But right now they're deprogramming us if anything.
We're remembering these past lives.

And the lives are all so different-- what could the common thread be that they're turning us into?
standalonehuman: (TogusaRealization)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-10 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That one, I don't have. Different worlds, some with magic and monsters, some that seem like our world, but just very far in the past?

The only common thread is not here. Retrospec is trying to get us to believe that this world isn't right.

How much do you believe in what they're showing you? Personally? The things you've remembered?

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-14 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Surprisingly explicable.
I was a teenager in Japan. Essentially myself, just if my grandparents had never emigrated.

I do have a theory, but there's no evidence for it. Just a rationale.

If this is a simulator, the technology needed to be so thorough and lifelike would be astronomically advanced.
For lack of a better word, it would be the "future."

What if this future civilization is intergalactic? And we're remember different planets?

It wouldn't explain why so many of them are Earth, however.
standalonehuman: (TogusaPonder2)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-15 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I am actually having to sit on that one for a minute. As in, why isn't everything that we are seeing true? That it's entirely differently worlds based on objective criteria.

One friend of mine sees magic, I see spider tanks, another friend sees a feudal samurai battlefield. We're all correct.

So then, if we take all those objective perspectives and slap them on top of each other? We get the simulation Retrospec has created for us. The middle ground of it all. But that would also make sense as to why things change.

After all, people started remembering the chocobos from their pasts.

This. Has more ground to it than you might think.
truedetective: (04)

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-16 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
If not for the extremely varied settings we're remembering, I would argue that there's no evidence against the theory whatsoever.
The idea that this is a simulation and we're recalling our past lives fits almost too well.
standalonehuman: (TogusaRealization)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-16 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Our past lives, or our real lives, though?

If this is a simulation, they got us into it from somewhere. We change as we remember more because we're remembering what's real?

I. I don't like this. I'd need more positive proof before I'd act on it.

But damn it, I can't figure out how to prove it wrong, either.
truedetective: (01)

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-16 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the question is a difference of semantics.
We existed as individuals outside the simulation. We had lives of our own.
This version of us was constructed largely along those lives.
Either unintentionally or intentionally, we're recalling them.

Of course, that brings up a question of philosophy: Does that make our life here somehow *not* real?
standalonehuman: (TogusaTalkDown)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-16 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Simulation or not, I'm going to keep arguing for what I have been all along: that our choices and actions here matter more than the things we've been shown and remembered.

It's that philosophical idea of intent versus action, action wins out every time. Even if this world is a simulation, it's the background that we are using to interact with each other. Can't affect the world, but we can affect the other people in it. So your actions are more important. And if this world isn't a simulation, then acting like our actions don't matter in it is the fast track to madness. So, again, actions are more important, and treating this world as real is our best option.
truedetective: (08)

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-16 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's increasingly more likely that this is a simulation, or some other artificial reality created using our "real" lives as templates.

But even with that in mind, I agree that our lives and relationships here shouldn't be discarded.
standalonehuman: (TogusaWorstIdea)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-16 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you chatted with Yoon-sung Lee? You two should really talk. Your theories are exceptionally close to one another.

The more evidence I see, the less I think this person Retrosepc is trying to get me to remember was a good person. That's not going to stop me from continuing to do my job and serve the law here.

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-16 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't, no.

If I may ask
What makes you think that?
standalonehuman: (TogusaRegret)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-16 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[Going back through the logic steps that have led to Togusa's paranoia about his memories are difficult, for a moment. Were does he get this from?]

I remembered an officer I was working with, at first I didn't realize it was a memory from somewhere else. All signs point to his death being my fault. Or, the other Togusa's fault. I was also one of the first to get sent a weapon by Retrospec, something highly customized.

Maybe it's stupid, I know I was keeping a closer watch on those people who had been sent weapons, and I am among that list.

[personal profile] truedetective 2017-07-18 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I see.
I would caution you to not pass judgments on fragments of memories.
They're devoid of context, and as an officer of the law you surely know:
Context may well be everything.
standalonehuman: (TogusaFrustrated)

[personal profile] standalonehuman 2017-07-24 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
How much context can we really account for?

I mean. You're right, of course. It's just more difficult to apply those same principles to ourselves. We're supposed to know better.
Not sure at what point in your training the self-recrimination is going to kick in, but that's definitely something us officers share. At least you know what you're in for down the line?