Antvasima said:
I am not well informed enough to perform a proper analysis of this issue, but would appreciate input from the other participants here.
DarkLK might also be able to help.
The main problem here is not even that I don't remember much, but that I don't understand the current interpretation accepted here. But okay, I'll comment on something. You can agree or not, I probably will not argue.
"I could make it into any form, but I want to produce as few stories as possible."
"This really is your world."
"Yes, I suppose it is. What do you want to drink? I hadn't decided on that yet."
Akuto spoke casually and Hiroshi peered into the cup to find what had no form beyond being a liquid.
"Water. Carbonated water."
As soon as Hiroshi said that, the contents of the cup transformed into cold mineral water with bubbles inside.
"I see."
He drank the water and it refreshingly wet his throat.
"What does it feel like to be able to do anything?" he asked after taking a breath.
"It feels like arriving at the farthest reaches of biological pleasure," immediately replied Akuto.
Hiroshi smiled a bit.
"I've never felt that."
"No, you wouldn't have." Akuto smiled too. "But we stand on the same stage.
We're probably the only ones who haven't become a concept."
"A concept?"
"You can't understand someone's personality just by looking at them, but now I can truly experience them. Even if other people's reactions are mechanical in nature, we have no way of determining it. What resides within me right now may be the countless personalities of all existing people."
"If a different object with the same name is placed in a box that only the individual can open, can conversation still be achieved?" asked Hiroshi. "If a foreign language dictionary has a sample greeting section and you communicate using that, can you still call it a conversation?"
Akuto looked amused.
"Yes. It definitely isn't like you to respond like that."
"While here,
I am a synthesis of the concept of Brave," explained Hiroshi with a grin.
"I see. So a concept is a concept."
"I do understand what you're saying, though.
The only ones given an incarnation in the Law of Identity's world are you and me. Wouldn't incarnation be the best term for being equal concepts before the creator? So in your world, the people inside are equally given an incarnation."
"I may be the creator here, but I don't feel like a God. What I can feel is that stories are binding us. Even when I create worlds, I am only free in which story I choose and to what degree I take that story. In the end, I want to destroy that and escape this world."
So the God of the world considers everyone below himself as a concept, and before the creator they are all equal. These apply to Akuto and his Afterlife world.
Akuto and Boichirou are the only creatures in the world of the Law of Identity, that is, in a completely different hierarchy.
Conceptual synthesis or incarnations, but for the Law of Identity, which obviously exceeds its world as well as Akuto does with his own world, even they are exactly the same concepts as the inhabitants of the Afterlife for Akuto himself.
This was similar to further universes being born within him.
The props used naturally extended beyond him.
In other words,
even the extra-universal Gods became possibilities in the story.
As a result, all stories fell into chaos.
And you remember that in the world of Acto there were even stories about the extra-universal Gods.
Akuto fought with those extra-universal Gods a few times.
Sometimes he won.
A story was created in which Akuto attended an academy in an unnamed alternate world. He was dominated by Fujiko and he struggled to help her take over the world. It ended with Fujiko's world domination never coming to fruition and the two of them never even kissing. He finished testing that possibility.
Sometimes the extra-universal Gods won.
And within stories there was versions of Akuto himself, who fought the extra-universal Gods with varying success.
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I feel like I only came to understand myself once I saw the outside," agreed Akuto.
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But when you get down to it, even the extra-universal Gods are fictional. They merely cannot distinguish between God, mankind, and ghost. Only once you inform the higher being and create an enclosure within a single universe can you make a clear distinction between the three. That allows you to understand who it is you are inside."
Akuto thought about Bouichirou's analysis.
"Okay. That means I need to think about how to respond to that higher being," said Akuto.
"I don't just want to save the beings inside me. I want to save all the beings inside the Law of Identity's universe. I want to free them from the stories. That is my wish."
Afterlife is basically a Demon of what the Anti-Universe should become. When all souls are saved. Residents should not become equal to God, they simply must cease to be philosophical zombies, that is, receive true free will. The whole story is basically about that.
That ritual brought both the stories and one's body down to zero and created a void. Creating that lower body known as a void body was the first step toward becoming a being not of this world.
It even noted that even the void body was only the first step.
As a result, we have that Akuto surpasses the inhabitants of his world to such an extent that they all (including the hierarchy of archetypal gods) are no more than the same concepts / incarnations before their Creator. And the Law of Identity surpasses him as a inhabitant of its own world to the same extent, since even in this world any hierarchy of stories can still be created, even if there are other hierarchies below it. Moreover, even the New Law of Identity must have such power. Although even if this applies only to Kena and her anti-universe, it should still be more than enough.
Good luck.