02. What is the Connection Between the Real and Imaginary Number Domains?
The Lower Domain is a single unit, while possessing two domains: the imaginary number domain and the real number domain. That complex structure itself is the underlying reason why the profoundness in our lives is born, why we feel mystery in the world, and why we believe in infinite possibilities. Mutually complementing each other, the real number and imaginary number domains have what kind of connection between them?
Diagram provided by Doc Citan Uzuki
As seen in the left diagram, various situations produced in the imaginary number domain give an effect in the real number domain. For example, when a Testament or a Gnosis interferes with Shion's consciousness which exists in the imaginary domain, that effect also appears on Shion in the real number domain. Also, as seen in the right diagram, when the functions of the flesh in the real number domain ceases -- in other words, when the body dies -- the person's consciousness in the imaginary domain can no longer retain individuality, and it is swallowed into the Collective Unconscious. The imaginary and real number domains are in a relationship where they mutually affect each other.
Captions:
(1) Concept diagram that shows how changes to, and events performed in, the imaginary domain exerts an effect on the real domain.
(2) Concept diagram that shows how changes in the real domain exert an effect on the state of a consciousness in the imaginary domain.
(3) Testament is an existence of the imaginary number domain. This is the white-cloaked man. (Ep3)
(4) A condition where a Gnosis has fused with an AGWS. (Ep1)
(5) Omega Res Novae (Ep3)
{Dual-Layer Structure}
The lower domain is organized according to the imaginary and real number domains. The imaginary number domain can be described as the domain of consciousness, or the domain of concepts, or perhaps even the domain of the soul. And the real number domain is considered to be the domain of substance. These two domains exist as two sides of the same coin, and all things that exist in the real domain, the material domain, also exist in the imaginary domain, the spiritual domain. This would have been considered similar to the world of the soul spoken about by religions that existed in many numbers in the era of Lost Jerusalem.
[Refer to section: 05, 06, 07, 08] {Complementary Connection}
The death of a person is typically recognized to mean the ceasing of functions of the body that exists in the real number domain.
Flesh that has ceased function will not move again, and because the functions of the brain have stopped, it also means death of the spirit. Brain-death, which had become a delicate question in the era of Lost Jerusalem, meant death of the spirit due to the ceasing of the functions of the brain. This is the grasp of the situation from an extremely real-domain point-of-view.
During this time, in the imaginary domain, the following phenomenon occurs. While the flesh is functioning in the real domain, a concept of individuality is formed, and the body's consciousness -- or rather, the existence in the imaginary domain that had been existing in separation from others -- due to the ceasing of functions of the flesh, loses that foothold, and its concept of individuality vanishes as it is consumed into the flow of the entire body of consciousnesses called the Collective Unconscious that exists in the imaginary domain. This is the death of a person from an imaginary-domain point-of-view.
However, that doesn't mean that all consciousness end up unifying with the Collective Unconscious. Take for example, a consciousness that has become Testament, or a consciousness that has become Gnosis.
[Refer to section: 05] {The Ability of Testament}
The ability of Testament is something that alters the imaginary domain, and as a result, it has influence in the real number domain. This is why they could perform numerous miracle-like deeds and cause phenomena that disregarded the physical laws of the real number domain.
This is also proof that all existence exists in both the real and imaginary number domains. There is no exception to this, even for artificial structures and products.
[Refer to section: 21, 33, 34, 35, 36] {The Assimilation Ability of Gnosis}
The assimilation ability of Gnosis is also considered to be an effect from an imaginary-domain alteration to the real domain.
Once, during the Woglinde's encounter with a Gnosis raid, it was confirmed that a fusion-assimilation phenomenon of a Gnosis with an AGWS (Anti-Gnosis Weapon System) occurred. Even though it was an AGWS, which was a weapon, it also had an imaginary existence, and so the Gnosis fused with its imaginary-domain body. Due to that, it came to reflect on the real domain as a phenomenon called fusion-assimilation.
[Refer to section: 05, 12] {Image of the Beach}
The ash-colored shore where Shion happened to meet with Mizrahi and Cherenkov as he was dying. This is the visual image of the imaginary domain that Shion perceived. In other words, it is what a consciousness visualizes when its real-domain body has perished and it is being pulled into the Collective Unconscious. This image differs according to cultural background and experience of the perceiver. Specifically, it becomes bound to a real image of a place that is entirely different depending on the subject who perceives it.
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