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Finally, we come to the last part of the Cosmology of the series, one that's often overlooked, The Imaginative Force/Infinite Abyss. But before I proceed, let's first discuss Dualities and Oblivion in the verse:
Now that we have gotten this out of the way, let's move on to understand what the Imaginative Force is.
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As already explained in the previous thread and also from my blog, Data composes literally everything in the verse and acts as the fundamental essence which defines and shapes them, from the mundane material to the abstract, such as Plot and Concepts. However, this also includes Duality. The series mentions several dualities that exist within the verse, such as Existence and Non-existence, 1 & 0 (for Bits i.e. Data) Chaos and Order, Good and Evil, Curses and Wishes, and others. As a matter of fact, when Passion and Despair, Good Wishes & Bad Wishes, etc, all are contained in a moment, it gives birth to the Story (which in the verse, ends up becoming a World). So all in all, Dualities exist in the verse, and like everything else, they are all composed of Data, which defines them.
So we know that Data defines everything in creation, including existence and even Chaotic Voids of Nonexistence. So what happens when everything is deleted? Where does it all end up?
Well, the answer is Oblivion. As explained in my blog, Oblivion is the primordial state from which all of creation emerged. In the series, Altair's true goal from the beginning was to cause all of creation to be erased and returned to the original state of Oblivion. This was the "Great Reset" where all worlds, including the Real World (and even the World of Chaos and Nonexistence), would all be erased and nothing would remain at all.
Moreover, when Altair was erased on a fundamental level (Sirius/Altair's erasure deletes Plot and Data), she became nonexistent (NEP 2), and yet, was still registered as part of creation because she had an Existence Coefficient value. However, when Altair came back and Sirius then negated her abilities and regeneration and erased her even harder, her Existence Coefficient became 0, thereby implying she was not at all part of creation anymore and has rather become part of the emptiness of Oblivion. Additionally, when EOS Altair erased the Universe created for Setsuna, we see a Blank Void remaining, which is implied to be the Oblivion itself acting as the background on which the worlds exist as Stories. As such, it can be surmised that Oblivion is the emptiness that completely lacks data and is devoid of any attributes. It exists on the opposite side/outside of creation, where everything emerged from and where everything will return to.
Therefore, its tier will be "At least Low 1-C, possibly Low 1-A" (Is the Primordial Emptiness existing outside creation from where all the worlds emerged, including the Real World, and it is where everything will return to eventually. It is completely devoid of Data as well as unconstrained by it, and as such, it lacks any attributes or characteristics that are otherwise defined and determined by Data. It also serves as the background on which all worlds exist in the form of stories, irrespective of their hierarchies, including even the Real World and its Alternate Timelines). Moreover, Oblivion will have:
Well, the answer is Oblivion. As explained in my blog, Oblivion is the primordial state from which all of creation emerged. In the series, Altair's true goal from the beginning was to cause all of creation to be erased and returned to the original state of Oblivion. This was the "Great Reset" where all worlds, including the Real World (and even the World of Chaos and Nonexistence), would all be erased and nothing would remain at all.
Moreover, when Altair was erased on a fundamental level (Sirius/Altair's erasure deletes Plot and Data), she became nonexistent (NEP 2), and yet, was still registered as part of creation because she had an Existence Coefficient value. However, when Altair came back and Sirius then negated her abilities and regeneration and erased her even harder, her Existence Coefficient became 0, thereby implying she was not at all part of creation anymore and has rather become part of the emptiness of Oblivion. Additionally, when EOS Altair erased the Universe created for Setsuna, we see a Blank Void remaining, which is implied to be the Oblivion itself acting as the background on which the worlds exist as Stories. As such, it can be surmised that Oblivion is the emptiness that completely lacks data and is devoid of any attributes. It exists on the opposite side/outside of creation, where everything emerged from and where everything will return to.
Therefore, its tier will be "At least Low 1-C, possibly Low 1-A" (Is the Primordial Emptiness existing outside creation from where all the worlds emerged, including the Real World, and it is where everything will return to eventually. It is completely devoid of Data as well as unconstrained by it, and as such, it lacks any attributes or characteristics that are otherwise defined and determined by Data. It also serves as the background on which all worlds exist in the form of stories, irrespective of their hierarchies, including even the Real World and its Alternate Timelines). Moreover, Oblivion will have:
- Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Likely Type 2; Completely devoid of Data, which defines Space, Time, Dimension, etc, and thus, not only lacks Spatio-Temporal features, but is also ontologically different from Creation as a whole)
- Nonduality (Type 1; Unbound by all the dualities present in Creation, which are created from Data)
- Nonexistent Physiology (Nature Type 2 & Aspects Type 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ; Oblivion is completely devoid of Data, which forms and defines all the aspects of creation, such as Concepts, Souls, Minds, Information, Causality, Space-Time, etc.)
Now that we have gotten this out of the way, let's move on to understand what the Imaginative Force is.
- As I explained in my blog, the driving force behind everything in the series is a power called the Imaginative Force/Imagination, which is a force that the collective will and belief of people in the Real World are connected to, and it is responsible for governing the worlds. This power shapes the storyworlds, alters worlds and beings in profound ways, and even governs the Real World alongside the rest of Creation.
- The Imaginative Force is the Primal Cause, existing before everything and was responsible for creating the Real World in the first place as the Source or Foundation for all Story Worlds. It was also responsible for setting up the fate of everything in creation, including the events that happened in the series.
- It is revealed to us that the Infinite Abyss is also responsible for setting up the fate, which would imply that the Imaginative Force exists deep in the Abyss at least, if not, being the same thing.
- The Infinite Abyss is described as existing beyond the Real World. However, when the original JP text for this is scrutinized, we find that the Abyss is described as infinitely deep in a metaphysical sense (Mukyu/無窮), and is transcendental to the Real World in a superior manner (Ryouga/凌駕). This would be sufficient for an "At least 1-C, possibly Higher" rating, given the Abyss's superiority over the entire cosmology as a whole, however, there is more to this.
- Due to the stacking up of Data/Information, there can be an R>F difference of +1D as seen in my previous thread with Real World, but the Abyss directly transcends this stacked hierarchy (as stated above) so that no amount of stacking Data/Information could reach the Abyss.
- The Abyss is the source from where all data emerges, which then turns into possibilities and manifests as storyworlds. Due to being the source of Data itself and being transcendental to the cosmology as a whole, Imaginative Force is completely transcendental to all Dualities and being their very source itself.
- The Abyss, being utterly devoid of everything, including information itself, makes it completely undefined by words and unrepresentable in numbers as 1 & 0 define Creation, while a lack of 1 & 0 defines Oblivion, and yet the Abyss transcends them all.
- Moreover, the Abyss is unreachable or inaccessible as it cannot be reached. Even when Altair and Setsuna transcended to become literal Gods, they were actually made into Gods by the collective will and beliefs of the people, i.e., via the Imaginative Force.
- Furthermore, the abyss is not an extension or part of the world and surpasses material composite/composition as a whole and cannot be expressed as the sum of parts since it is utterly devoid of data, which makes up Space-Time and Dimensions themselves. This makes it irreducible into lower levels.
- Finally, from the perspective of the Abyss, all the worlds are equally perceived as a Story, as shown when Altair and Setsuna became Gods (As allowed by the Imaginative Force) and created an Alternate Timeline to the Real World, which they called it a Story and even said they would create Infinite Stories or Infinite Worlds. This is consistent with how Altair, who understands the true nature of the Real World, refers to it as a Story multiple times in the series, and even the Narrator itself calls the Real World's events a "Story the Surpassed All Stories".
- Likely 1-A (The Imaginative Force is the metaphysical power existing ontologically transcendental to the entirety of the cosmology, within the Infinite Depths of the Abyss, and which is connected to the Collective Will of the People of the Real World. The Imaginative Force is the Primal Cause as well as the very source of Fate, which predetermined everything in all of Creation and is the wellspring from where Data is generated. From the Abyss, the entirety of the Cosmology and all its Worlds are perceived as mere Fictional Stories without any distinction between the worlds. As such, the Imaginative Force is able to manipulate and govern the worlds, including the Real World, as if they are Stories. The Abyss is completely unbound by Data, which defines everything, and as such, it cannot be expressed as the sum of parts due to lacking any material composition and not being an extension of the Worlds)
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