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I’m making this thread, to call to attention an issue I have with the current Reality-Fiction Transcendence page. Currently the page says:
“A character that qualifies would usually then scale to one level of infinity higher than the totality of the cosmology they transcend. So for example, viewing a Low 2-C to 2-A cosmology as fiction would grant Low 1-C, doing so to a 6-Dimensional Low 1-C construct would scale the character to 1-C, doing so to a 10-Dimensional High 1-C structure would be the equivalent of an 11-D High 1-C and so on. However, depending on the details and depictions of the Reality-Fiction Transcendence, it can be more than a simple 'dimensional jump', for example because each reality-fiction "level" having been explained to contain more than one level of infinity (e.g. due to containing large higher-dimensional spaces or similar).”
My problem with this is that it grants a character the tier of Low 1-C without that character being able to affect, create, or destroy an entire Low 1-C. To me, this is like giving a character Low 2-C because they exist inside a universe. Characters should get tiers for what they have done, not because of where they exist.
From speaking with other users on this forum, I understand the main argument for supporting this:
A. The character in question is viewing a tier 2 structure as fictional.
B. The characters inside the tier 2 structure will never being able to reach or access or affect the higher character with their own power and no matter how many multipliers or infinites is stacked or given to those characters, they will never reach that higher character.
Let’s address both points:
A. Irrelevant. Viewing something as fiction is completely arbitrary. There are an assortment of works of fiction where fictional characters within those works are able to do anything from nothing, to completely rise above the entire verse. Also, the comparison to real life just falls apart. In real life, we have no power over fiction. It is a purely conceptual thing that we interact with, the most we can do is change other people’s perspective about those fictions. Perspective shouldn’t give you a tier.
B. This is the main argument to me that makes sense. But to me this argument only holds up as long as you accept certain ideas as objectively true. First of all, let’s talk about the inaccessibility. Inaccessibility should not warrant a tier jump. There are tons of examples of characters who are inaccessible to other characters. A character in another universe can be inaccessible to other characters. A character maybe in another dimension, be dead, a ghost, non-existent. Being inaccessible is just a flavor of the story. Also, we have multiple examples of characters gaining access to these inaccessible characters and places, as just another flavor of the story.
It is also a weird assumption, to claim that a character could not access this higher layer if we gave them more power. They can’t access these layers because the story has made it so. Again, how many characters do finally access these layers after a power boost or through some method.
It is also goes against verse equalization. A character may be inaccessible in their own story, but different a character from another story can have feats of accessing “inaccessible” places. And not to mention, in our fictional battle domes, we are placing both characters within the same arena where they have general access to each other. And to that statement, someone will say, "well the lower level character is infinitely weaker and smaller than the higher dimensional character" and to that leads my next point:
That it tries to equate the differences between layers, as the differences between dimensions, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding with that.
Higher Dimensional spaces are not fundamentally inaccessible to lower dimensional spaces and Higher Dimensional objects are not infinitely bigger than lower dimensional objects.
First some background: Spaces can have any number of dimensions. We currently live in a 3D space, and no other dimensional spaces have ever been observed and discovered. Our notions of other spaces, being parallel 3D spaces, higher dimensional spaces, lower dimensional spaces is completely theoretical. So theoretically, Higher Dimensional space is as inaccessible to a lower dimensional space, in the same way that one universe is inaccessible to another universe. Of course, in fiction, we have ways of getting around this via, teleportation, phasing, portals, immeasurable speed etc.
Lower dimensional objects can exist normally in higher dimensional spaces. An example of this: draw a flat plane in a 3D graph. You can move the flat plane in any direction or way while inside the 3D graph. A lower dimensional object is not infinitely smaller than a higher dimensional object. For example, a flat square can be as large as a planet. The two objects can exist next to each other without problem. To say the round spherical planet is infinitely bigger than the planet sized flat square is like saying a meal with salt is infinitely more flavored than a meal without salt. It's a silly way to describe an object lacking a dimension and not in anyway scientific.
The only problems with dimensional spaces is whether a higher dimensional object can enter a smaller dimensional spaces**.
For example, The flat plane that is as large as as planet, could easily fit inside a 2D space, but what about the planet: here are possibly three outcomes:
**(Also it is possible to take a 2D object and fold it in 3D space. That folded 2D object wouldn’t fit in the 2D space while folded and would need to be unfolded or suffer the potential 3 out comes I mentioned above)
While a 6D object may or may not be able to enter a Lower Dimensional Space normally, a lower dimensional object can enter a Higher Dimensional space, and exist normally and move around in all dimensions of the space. Should a 3D character gain Low 1-C because they can exist normally in a 6D space. No. That 3D character should gain Low 1-C because they can destroy that 6D space. The dimensionality of the character means nothing. It is about what they can do.
We have multitude of examples of weaker characters being able to exist in the same space as extremely powerful beings. We do not give these weaker characters the same tier as these extremely powerful beings unless they show they are capable of the same feats.
Low 1-C should be given to characters that can affect, destroy, create, these 6D spaces. As the current tier says:
“Characters or objects that can affect, create and/or destroy the entirety of spaces whose size corresponds to one to two higher levels of infinity greater than a standard universal model (Low 2-C structures, in plain English.) In terms of "dimensional" scale, this can be equated to 5 and 6-dimensional real coordinate spaces (R ^ 5 to R ^ 6)”
In conclusion, I think R>F transcendence can be good to pinpoint if a special structure in a story is beyond the tier 2, and that characters who can affect, destroy, or create them should be given Low 1-C. Characters who simply exist in these spaces shouldn’t get higher tiers by virtue. If layers are equivalent to dimensions, then we know that beings from lower layers should be able to exist in these places with no issue, and any issue is a story specific element that can’t be applied to all fiction. Also, these spaces being inaccessible would also be a story specific element and many fictions have examples of characters accessing supposedly inaccessible places. Characters should not get higher tiers for existing superior places, but rather having superior feats.
“A character that qualifies would usually then scale to one level of infinity higher than the totality of the cosmology they transcend. So for example, viewing a Low 2-C to 2-A cosmology as fiction would grant Low 1-C, doing so to a 6-Dimensional Low 1-C construct would scale the character to 1-C, doing so to a 10-Dimensional High 1-C structure would be the equivalent of an 11-D High 1-C and so on. However, depending on the details and depictions of the Reality-Fiction Transcendence, it can be more than a simple 'dimensional jump', for example because each reality-fiction "level" having been explained to contain more than one level of infinity (e.g. due to containing large higher-dimensional spaces or similar).”
My problem with this is that it grants a character the tier of Low 1-C without that character being able to affect, create, or destroy an entire Low 1-C. To me, this is like giving a character Low 2-C because they exist inside a universe. Characters should get tiers for what they have done, not because of where they exist.
From speaking with other users on this forum, I understand the main argument for supporting this:
A. The character in question is viewing a tier 2 structure as fictional.
B. The characters inside the tier 2 structure will never being able to reach or access or affect the higher character with their own power and no matter how many multipliers or infinites is stacked or given to those characters, they will never reach that higher character.
Let’s address both points:
A. Irrelevant. Viewing something as fiction is completely arbitrary. There are an assortment of works of fiction where fictional characters within those works are able to do anything from nothing, to completely rise above the entire verse. Also, the comparison to real life just falls apart. In real life, we have no power over fiction. It is a purely conceptual thing that we interact with, the most we can do is change other people’s perspective about those fictions. Perspective shouldn’t give you a tier.
B. This is the main argument to me that makes sense. But to me this argument only holds up as long as you accept certain ideas as objectively true. First of all, let’s talk about the inaccessibility. Inaccessibility should not warrant a tier jump. There are tons of examples of characters who are inaccessible to other characters. A character in another universe can be inaccessible to other characters. A character maybe in another dimension, be dead, a ghost, non-existent. Being inaccessible is just a flavor of the story. Also, we have multiple examples of characters gaining access to these inaccessible characters and places, as just another flavor of the story.
It is also a weird assumption, to claim that a character could not access this higher layer if we gave them more power. They can’t access these layers because the story has made it so. Again, how many characters do finally access these layers after a power boost or through some method.
It is also goes against verse equalization. A character may be inaccessible in their own story, but different a character from another story can have feats of accessing “inaccessible” places. And not to mention, in our fictional battle domes, we are placing both characters within the same arena where they have general access to each other. And to that statement, someone will say, "well the lower level character is infinitely weaker and smaller than the higher dimensional character" and to that leads my next point:
That it tries to equate the differences between layers, as the differences between dimensions, but there is a fundamental misunderstanding with that.
Higher Dimensional spaces are not fundamentally inaccessible to lower dimensional spaces and Higher Dimensional objects are not infinitely bigger than lower dimensional objects.
First some background: Spaces can have any number of dimensions. We currently live in a 3D space, and no other dimensional spaces have ever been observed and discovered. Our notions of other spaces, being parallel 3D spaces, higher dimensional spaces, lower dimensional spaces is completely theoretical. So theoretically, Higher Dimensional space is as inaccessible to a lower dimensional space, in the same way that one universe is inaccessible to another universe. Of course, in fiction, we have ways of getting around this via, teleportation, phasing, portals, immeasurable speed etc.
Lower dimensional objects can exist normally in higher dimensional spaces. An example of this: draw a flat plane in a 3D graph. You can move the flat plane in any direction or way while inside the 3D graph. A lower dimensional object is not infinitely smaller than a higher dimensional object. For example, a flat square can be as large as a planet. The two objects can exist next to each other without problem. To say the round spherical planet is infinitely bigger than the planet sized flat square is like saying a meal with salt is infinitely more flavored than a meal without salt. It's a silly way to describe an object lacking a dimension and not in anyway scientific.
The only problems with dimensional spaces is whether a higher dimensional object can enter a smaller dimensional spaces**.
For example, The flat plane that is as large as as planet, could easily fit inside a 2D space, but what about the planet: here are possibly three outcomes:
- The planet simply cannot enter the 2D space.
- The planet is compressed into 2D
- The planet phases through the space and only appears as a 2D crosscut.
**(Also it is possible to take a 2D object and fold it in 3D space. That folded 2D object wouldn’t fit in the 2D space while folded and would need to be unfolded or suffer the potential 3 out comes I mentioned above)
While a 6D object may or may not be able to enter a Lower Dimensional Space normally, a lower dimensional object can enter a Higher Dimensional space, and exist normally and move around in all dimensions of the space. Should a 3D character gain Low 1-C because they can exist normally in a 6D space. No. That 3D character should gain Low 1-C because they can destroy that 6D space. The dimensionality of the character means nothing. It is about what they can do.
We have multitude of examples of weaker characters being able to exist in the same space as extremely powerful beings. We do not give these weaker characters the same tier as these extremely powerful beings unless they show they are capable of the same feats.
Low 1-C should be given to characters that can affect, destroy, create, these 6D spaces. As the current tier says:
“Characters or objects that can affect, create and/or destroy the entirety of spaces whose size corresponds to one to two higher levels of infinity greater than a standard universal model (Low 2-C structures, in plain English.) In terms of "dimensional" scale, this can be equated to 5 and 6-dimensional real coordinate spaces (R ^ 5 to R ^ 6)”
In conclusion, I think R>F transcendence can be good to pinpoint if a special structure in a story is beyond the tier 2, and that characters who can affect, destroy, or create them should be given Low 1-C. Characters who simply exist in these spaces shouldn’t get higher tiers by virtue. If layers are equivalent to dimensions, then we know that beings from lower layers should be able to exist in these places with no issue, and any issue is a story specific element that can’t be applied to all fiction. Also, these spaces being inaccessible would also be a story specific element and many fictions have examples of characters accessing supposedly inaccessible places. Characters should not get higher tiers for existing superior places, but rather having superior feats.
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