Mieruko-chan - Ch. 66

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ngl, that whole monologue sounded like a bunch of babble to me. Bereft of any actual meaning.
But is that because the author did not know/understand the concepts/stuff, or is it an artefact of the translator failing to?
 
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what i gather is that Seto is technically not rly a bad guy perse
hes just a guy who takes the whole Exorcism of ghosts very seriously since as mentioned he doenst consider the circumstances hwich to be fair
We seen how like .. a majority of these ghots are up to no fucking good so FAIR ENOUGH.
like the problem thou is that getting rid of Miko's dad will probaly fuck over their family since its pretty clear he and.. whatever the hell that thing that follows him aroudn is protecting them so yeah .
but seeing how he gave Miko some "guards" he rly just want his job done i see now.... how will a certain uuuuuh tentacle ghost think about this
That 'thing' if i recall, is the mom's family pet dog, Francois.
 
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That's an awfully elaborate way of saying "In our line of work, we won't ever know who's good or bad because what spirits used to be good can turn bad just as quickly. Might as well get rid of them all while we can."
 
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ngl, that whole monologue sounded like a bunch of babble to me. Bereft of any actual meaning.
But is that because the author did not know/understand the concepts/stuff, or is it an artefact of the translator failing to?
I tried to keep it as accurate to the original as possible, but also take into consideration what I personally thinks he means. It's a mixture of abstract concepts, some philosophical, some physics stuff as well. It's deliberately hard to grasp tho, so I tried to keep it that way.
 
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I tried to keep it as accurate to the original as possible, but also take into consideration what I personally thinks he means. It's a mixture of abstract concepts, some philosophical, some physics stuff as well. It's deliberately hard to grasp tho, so I tried to keep it that way.
OK so wtf did he mean lol
 
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From his explanation, I understand that he doesn't known what it is, but it is taking a fluctuating form for each individual point of view because it isn't anything recognizable for them? Like when someone can't understand something, the brain will try to assimilate an object or matter to something it knows.
It's pretty much gibberish that borrows from the concept of a quantum mechanical wave function of states and it's collapse via measurement (observation). You know, like the famous Schrödinger's cat thought experiment. It's like he's saying an apparition is many things at once, but gets a fixed form once you actually percieve it's presence. Or spewing word salads might just be his way of avoiding the question :pout:
 
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Do let me know if I'm wrong, so what I can understand from what Seto said basically:
  • The existent of "ghost" and "apparitions" is a distorted concept that can fool some individual (like Miko) into seeing them while they actually weren't there, like an illusion, but like a parallel universe, they do exist on the "other side" which was why he said "All things overlap."
  • You can't touch them physically.
  • They don't have a defined form, but their appearance will form depends on each individual's thought (usually lean on the disturbing aspect of the mind)
  • Since they exist while also not at the same time, so they can blur the line between the living and the dead. Seto is the one who "stand in the gaps" so he can "send them back" to where they came from, but he can't close the "door" that lead them here?
Seto's explanation seems to lean onto the Non-Aristotelian thinking, particularly the General Semantics (by Alfred Korzybski).
《...this system challenges the assumptions of Aristotelian logic by focusing on the non-binary complexity of the world and human experience.》
Like if you ask two people to picture an "apple" in their minds, and then ask them to describe it in detail and compare the two answers, they are likely to be different - yet both have the concept of what an "apple" is, and that is tied to the word specifying it, whereas the described details depend a lot on the way it was requested (words used, and various other factors).

So in a similar way, how people address and think about the supernatural, if and how they perceive it differs - and the ground truth remains elusive. This also affects how the spiritual side affects people, why they get attached and interested in some, while ignoring the rest.
 
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You aren't a gamer if you don't understand Rom's explanation.
Come to think of it his name also is a nice metaphor. Now where is Ram?
His "explanation" makes just as little sense as the old man's. Why would debuggers "not have the authority to fix the bug" and just who does he mean when speaking about them? The concept of installing a mod to bypass a problem in software comes from the expectation that it won't be fixed due to cessation of support, not a lack of authority.
 
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His "explanation" makes just as little sense as the old man's. Why would debuggers "not have the authority to fix the bug" and just who does he mean when speaking about them? The concept of installing a mod to bypass a problem in software comes from the expectation that it won't be fixed due to cessation of support, not a lack of authority.
Because he is not the original programmer so he doesn't have access to fix the code and debug. That's why he talks about authority I think. He doesn't have the authority of the administrator.
 

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