Sure, so again, where is the statement that he regenerated his information? Where is the statement that he has fundamental information as an imaginary person? Cause that would easily debunk my entire argument if you provided it right now. How would he even have this information, if he's just a product of Gremmy's imagination? Cause the main scan you've been using throughout all of this, does draw a distinction between what Shaz is made of and Reishi which is all we know to hold information in bleach. The assertion could be made that since Reishi is just spiritual matter that Kishi also holds information, but that assumption doesn't really work surrounding Shaz. In fact, he's directly called an imaginary product, and if something is imganiary it doesn't exist.
I’ve provided the scan and explanation countless amount of times, if your only counter towards it is a whataboutism in “where’s the statement he regenerated his information” than i’m not going to engage with your arguments anymore, since you’re clearly not engaging with mine, actually counter the claims i’m making rather than skipping passed it by asking for scans which aren't necessary in finding conclusion in this debate.
I’ve explained countless times in great detail why he intrinsically has fundamental information through the action of his regeneration. I'm not obligated to give you direct statements when I’ve provided valid premises implicitly supported by the text itself, actually engage with those premises themselves or stop arguing all together, because it’s getting to the point you’re stonewalling this conversation by requesting information which isn’t necessary for this debate.
He would have fundamental information inherently since he’s still an entity which exists within reality, fundamental information just describes necessary factual components of one’s existence, the fact you’re able to describe his existence as imaginary to begin with proves he has fundamental information since that’s a fundamental fact about his existence, that’s exactly what ontology is, the branch of metaphysics which describes the nature of one’s fundamental being.
Imagination does exist, it just doesn’t exist on a materialized level, such as those created of matter, it exists on a more fundamental, idealized level, such as thoughts, ideas or conceptions.
Please find the quote of me arguing that his transformation was completely independent from his regeneration. Cause not a single one of my response post to you here has me saying that ever or even implying it. All I've said is that he never regenerated information cause
He changed what he was made of through transforming something already present. That isn't regeneration, because Shaz isn't restoring himself, he's transforming himself.
You can seemingly pivot all you want, but this statement heavily implies you believe that Shaz isn’t regenerating his fundamental existence, he’s rather changing it through an ability separate from his regeneration.
So, somehow someone being a non-existent entity or as the series labels him "an imaginary product" doesn't equate to having non-existent physiology? Instead being non-existent means a character who clearly has a physical form and is not stated to embody an abstraction has abstract existence? How do you not see the huge flaw? How do you read "transform himself into reality" and take that as to meaning he somehow was embodying an abstraction beforehand?
Yes, he doesn’t have Nonexistence Physiology, he doesn’t objectively lack necessarily natures or aspects about himself, he at best has a level of abstract existence since he’s embodying an abstraction such as thoughts or ideas.
I’m taking it to mean he’s embodying/existing as an abstraction before hand rather than being a nonexistent entity because the explanation provided implies a level of existence, just fundamentally different from Reishi, it doesn’t imply Shaz lacks physical, spiritual, mental or informational existence by any means, you’re misunderstanding what “imagination” even describes, imagination just describes something non-physical, such as thoughts and ideas, things without material constitution, not something nonexistent, null or without reality.
No, no no. That's not how that works at all. You can't just assert because he made himself into a real person through absorbing real things, that means he regenerated something he never had.
Shaz was not a real person. He got hurt. He healed himself using real material. After enough healing, he became a real person. In none of that, does Shaz ever regenerate or regain what he once was, which is an imaginary person. Not to mention, his power itself only absorbs Reishi, not information. Sure Reishi has information inside of it, but going by your logic, every character with like water manipulation or earth manipulation would also get matter manipulation cause atoms compose these things. It's missing the point entirely on the mechanics of the ability itself. Your argument is contigent on Shaz regenerating information yes, but you keep failing to acknowledge that there is no way for him to either possess this information cause the only things we know to possess this fundamental information is again Reishi and because he's never said to regain information because his regeneration is only concerned with his body.
The onus is on you to prove that Shaz doesn’t have fundamental information when he’s implicitly described having fundamental information.
Yeah, of course he doesn’t become an imaginary existence again, because it was fundamentally changed by the Reishi he absorbed, that’s my entire claim. That doesn’t address literally anything, it’s an actual non-statement.
If I'm arguing that he’s changing his fundamental existence through his absorption of Reishi then he’s also absorbing the fundamental information from that Reishi as well, you’re making another non-statement.
They wouldn’t unless they have evidence of manipulating the atoms which constitute those elements, which I'm arguing Shaz does have, within this analogy, Shaz would have evidence which implies he’s manipulating the atoms which construct those elements to manipulate them. You’re just misunderstanding my argument.
Reishi isn’t the only thing within Bleach which contains information within it, Shaz’s imaginary existence innately contains information within it as explained in this message.
If you can post your multiple pieces of evidence which demonstrates Shaz both having information type 2 as an Imaginary product and him regenerating this information, I'd be happy to see it. Cause everything else you posted so far either isn't clear proof of these assertions.
Being composed of imagination isn't embodying an abstraction, cause it's not representative of any specific idea. He's not embodying imagination or the idea of imagination, he was never stated to in any capacity. Also, have you not checked the Abstract Existence page? There are only two types of Abstract Existences: Type 1 which is when someone lacks a true physical form and is the abstraction itself which means they can only be interacted with through messing the idea that they embody or Type 2 when a character embodies an abstraction which is nowhere close to being an imaginary product. There is no "thought" type of abstract existence.
The main reason I'm still focusing on this aspect is because the type of existence that Shaz possess is important for this argument
So, how else in bleach does someone have spiritual, mental, or information existence without Reishi? There are no other sources of these things within Bleach, unless you're exerting that Gremmy manipulates information with The Visionary which would also requirement statements or feats in order for that to be accepted.
It’s actively existing on an abstract level, he’s embodying the idea of Gremmy’s imaginations which are entirely constructed of thoughts, innately so, that’s a direct form of Abstract Existence, just because he doesn’t exist as the abstraction of ideas or thoughts themselves isn’t evidence against him existing on an abstract level.
Shaz has spiritual, mental and information existence without having Reishi constitution, Lee has the exact same thing, The Cleaner has information existence without being constructed of Reishi, the list goes on and on. You have specific levels of existence without being constructed of Reishi.
Gremmy does manipulate information to a certain level since he’s able to construct entities which have fundamental existences different from Reishi.
@Deceived3596 Your in depth explanations are literally based on assumptions, especially on it being informational regeneration since at no point in your arguments did you remotely provide evidence that reishi is comprised of information, especially information that's the building block of existence. Regenerating from fundamental existence can mean literally anything, why the hell does this somehow mean that it's information based regen when we even have Ginjo mention that everything is made up of souls in the world? You can say your logic remains true as much as you want, if it gets rejected in the end it means jack shit.
Your arguments against my arguments are just whataboutism without literally zero argumentative substance, constructed entirely off of logical fallacious, don’t dare minimize my arguments when you’ve provided nothing of substance yet.
I’ve proven within this instance that Shaz is regenerating his fundamental existence through Reishi, I don't need to provide evidence that Reishi, in its entirety, exists on a fundamental level or contains fundamental information, just need to prove within this instance it does, and I’ve proved such true multiple times. You haven’t actually contended with those premises in a logical manner yet.
I’ve provided multiple explanations which describe why it’s talking specifically about his ontological existence, which is one’s fundamental information. If you aren't understanding that part of my argument then just disengage from the conversation, because seemingly you aren’t going to understand anytime soon.
Ginjo's statement doesn’t disprove anything, it literally doesn’t pertain to anything in contention right now, if i’m arguing that within this specific instance, Reishi does contain fundamental information within it, then Ginjo saying everything contains Reish doesn’t disprove that. Stop trying to obfuscate the conversation through bringing up unneeded points.
It being rejected doesn’t disprove the logic behind it, i don’t ******* care about what’s accepted or not, that has nothing to do with what’s logically true or false. Just because staff members who seemingly can’t, in good faith, actually engage with my arguments or who don’t understand basic metaphysical concepts, disagree with my arguments, it doesn’t disprove their legitimacy. I care about the truth, not what gets accepted at the end of the day.