23 August

Study of Re:CREATORS 16: Lecture 4 continued

Meteora gives her metaphysical interpretation.
“The history of his world and the history of this world are not connected. Those worlds are independent. The passage of time does not exist.”
Rui asks, “What do you mean? I don’t understand!”

Meteora explains, “You were transported here from a world created by the imagination of this world. I and Selesia are the same.”
The timeline of the fictional world is one of another possible world, so it is not connected to the actual time lapse of the real world, even if they appear to share similar past people and events. Along with other possible settings, the time axis is just one of various conditions that modify a particular possible world. For instance, when new fossils are excavated and particular past era is certified, it may be considered to be just a present event. According to the cosmology that does not recognize the existence of time, past events are generated just now as information. All the possible worlds are described as accumulation of instances that constructs the information of the condition called “past”.
Relating notions are found among theories called “Block Universe” proposed by quantum mechanics and “five-minutes hypothesis” postulated by Bertrand Russel supposing the world was created just 5 minutes ago together with its past history.

Meteora is able to grasp everything through speculative consideration of fictionality, where identity between possible worlds must be considered in a phase where everything is generated in completely discrete relationship. As for the extended verification of identity in the fictionality plane, please refer to the article below, in which the peculiarity of Hatsune Miku and other fictional characters are discussed.

Individuality in Figurines, Anime and Game
https://www.academia.edu/104353825/Individuality_in_Figurines_Anime_and_Game


https://twitter.com/mackuro3/status/1325685215423913984

“… a strange girl appeared. I don’t really know what happened after that. …She was wearing a military uniform and had a saber.”
Matsubara explains, “The survival of the world is at stake.”
Nakanogane remarks, “Matsubara, there you go again making such cliched plots….”
Matsubara answers, “It looks like it’s time for me to pay for … making a living doing stuff like this….”

A meta-remark on the work is expressed by one of its characters, making the fictionality plane more complex.
Selesia says, “Not just this world… but all of the story worlds… created by this world. Meteora thinks there’s a chance that anyone who tries to resist… will be destroyed.”

Rui Kanoya exclaims, “Knock it off! I have no idea what you guys are talking about! My entire life… I’ve been forced to fight in fierce battles! Why do I have to spend my whole life doing that here too? I’m sick of it!”
Matsubara says, “Oh, there he goes again. He’s just like his character description.”

Nakanogane answers, saying, “I thought it would be more interesting… if the story took a plot twist when he got defensive. I never thought I’d deal with him in real life…”

Rui exclaims, “I don’t care whether this world gets destroyed! Got it? I don’t care what anyone says. I’m not getting back in that thing, no matter what anyone says. I’m going to do whatever I want from now on!”

Borrowed personality settings. A variation of Shinji Ikari, from Evangelion?
A fictional work may contain many references to other works.
As a whole, fictionality plane is a very loosely connected multi-axed complex information system.
https://twitter.com/mackuro3/status/1325686530573099011

I have developed some extended argument on the relationship between original work and derivative works. Please see the articles below.

https://www.academia.edu/114744009/Identity_and_Individuality_of_Derivative_Fictions_Fictional_Archetype_and_Equivalency_of_a_Movie_to_the_Original_Novel_1

https://www.academia.edu/114922302/Identity_and_Individuality_of_Derivative_Fictions_Fictional_Archetype_and_Equivalency_of_a_Movie_to_the_Original_Novel_2

https://www.academia.edu/115238897/Identity_and_Individuality_of_Derivative_Fictions_3

https://www.academia.edu/115450956/Identity_and_Individuality_of_Derivative_Fictions_Fictional_Archetype_and_Equivalency_of_a_Movie_to_the_Original_Novel_4