I think the fact you had to make an entirely separate thread on conceptual manipulation shows how this has been made complicated enough.
Because the forum needed to update the way it indexes powers? I don't understand this point, did you read the whole thread and what it's about?
The idea of humanity birthing curses through their fear is also all that's ever done on the conceptual level of things,
Ok so you are saying that humans have the inherent ability to manifest their concepts as actual substantial things utilizing cursed energy? Cause it sounds like we agree.
besides Gojo's cursed technique.
Disagree.
Cursed energy itself isn't conceptual, nor are curses. Negative emotions generate cursed energy, and enough negative emotions towards a certain thing creates cursed spirits. But after that, they aren't ideas anymore they're just entities. Mahito himself describes cursed spirits as a culmination of cursed energy.
How do you know that? It can clearly interact with concepts/abstract info, and is birthed directly from conceptual activity. It is generated by humans experiencing concepts and literally warping reality to manifest said concepts as beings.
Curses are 100% conceptual. Once again, several other verses have this same thing. The fact that curses have abstract existence also speaks on this. Mahito himself even recognizes the power that
concepts have over humans.
None of that has anything to do with concepts though. All that has to do is information. Which is why we should just use information manipulation instead of trying to add conceptual manipulation to the mix.
I don't think you are understanding my overarching point or the point of the thread that was made.
The likes of Yaga and Ogami make it very clear that they mess with information and not ideas, while Mahito and Getou both acknowledge a relationship between the soul and body, neither one devolves into the idea of concepts when speaking about it.
Outside of you completely neglecting the conceptual power of human thought to manifest concepts and subjective reality, please digest my full argument:
- Abstract information manipulation is an analog to concept manipulation. Both things affect the "essence" of a thing.
- The wiki does not index for said type of info manipulation and other verses with similar mechanics got concept manip of varying levels.
- Humans due possess inherent conceptual power with their thoughts, feelings, and "images" )concepts. Once again, cursed energy being the vehicle doesn't mean much.
- As Yuri discussed in the thread, there is an inherent crossover between some of these powers and even stated it qualifies for type 3 concept manip.
So yes, the topic does warrant discussion and elaboration, which is the whole reason I made the thread and tagged relevant staff for.
And what more, they speak about how they're all intrinsically linked which also doesn't involve concepts. It just reveals that one can manipulate the body through manipulating the soul and the inverse can be true as well. All of this boils down to information not to concepts.
No. Ogami and Principal specifically manipulate the information that allows for those things to even have duality in the first place, meaning it dictates essence. Which is the whole point of this discussion.
Your several examples boil down to information and souls, not to concepts.
Explain to me how the power "inverse" doesn't use concepts.
Imaginary Vengeful cursed spirits are literally lore concepts thought of by humans brought to life.
Also see above^
And my statement is that only gojo's power relies directly on manipulating a concept. No one else does this.
False, Gojo is one of the only ones who does so on a type 2 basis which means nothing for type 3.
Limitless is just bringing the concept of infinity into reality. Only that technique really speaks of messing around with a concept or idea. In explanation for other abilites, other means explain their nature such as information. The series itself directly acknowledges the idea of conceptual manipulation but only awards the usage of it to Limitless.
Not really as I discussed above. Are you under the impression that a verse must explicitly use the word "concept" to qualify for concept manipulation? Do you understand why I am bringing up ontology and the like? (not trying to be rude genuinely curious)
I agree that Cursed Spirits come about through conceptual means, but they themselves are not concepts.
They have a conceptual nature.
They are still composed of cursed energy and not an idea.
Explain to me why they must be mutually exclusive. I haven't really seen you substantiate this claim.
And information in of itself is not equal to concepts. Information is not abstract.
This is just wholly incorrect.
That's why we consider them separate on the wiki and in life in general.
Yes, key phrasing "in general". That says nothing about instances where information plays a fundamental role in applying essence to things, which is a direct analog to concepts.
And there are multiple different types of "information" in physics, which leads me to my next point:
And the verse itself draws this line for us, the idea of Toji wasn't brought back, he was. The idea of a soul isn't copied, the soul itself is.
No. Toji's soul information was exclusively left out and only his body information was summoned. Toji regained his sentience because his body was inherently linked to his soul which is what Not Getou also discussed and highlights that the spirit/matter split is not a true mutually exclusive split of essence, and all things are fundamentally data.
All of these things are treated as actual in-verse, not as abstract.
I'm not sure why you don't think abstract existences can be concrete. It's fiction and several verses already have this.
Just because they can have overlap, that doesn't mean they overlap here.
And I explained why they did overlap. You have yet to actually dissect my points outside of calling them false. Which is what I am asking for.
Which is why I'm sure if you brought any of those mods over here and they were shown what the series shows us, I don't think they'd agree.
I literally linked the thread and Yuri said what I showed qualified for type 3.
Ontological information manip, if passed, would essentially be a reskinned version of concept manip. Which once again, was the whole point of making the thread. To clarify indexing issues related to that cross over.
We have a power that covers all of this, that's information manipulation.
No we don't. Which is why I made the thread and why multiple people expressed sentiment similar to mine and why info manip needs to be changed as is being discussed in the thread.