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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
Unfortunately, your ideas, though complex, skipped the most important aspect of the Data Entities; they are 4D creatures.
All your assumptions assume the Data entities as creatures trapped in time, that they are stuck on the time stream like the rest of us. But this is clearly not the case.
The limitations you impose on the Data entities, thus, makes no sense from their perspective; past and future are the same thing to them. If you did not put this into account, nothing else would matter.
They have such trouble understanding 3D, they had to send a probe in the shape of Yuki Nagato. They themselves would certainly have trouble understanding anything you described, which does not really exist for them.
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There is one limitation to the trans-temporal synchronization of Data Entities that must be kept in mind: Authorization for it must be granted from the "future" end. Recall how in the prologue to Intrigues, Yuki denied synchronization access to her past self. This means that although Data Entities CAN access future data under the right circumstances, it is not a "pre-cognitive memory" wherein the future is accessed as freely as the past.
Given that the transference of information "backward" in time requires a conscious action on the part of the future end of the transference, and given that Data Entities at any point in their development before they achieved awareness (i.e. when they were at the IQ equivalent of "dumb animals") would be unable to comprehend the data stream from the future anyway, I do think that linear time would still apply to their pre-sapience evolution, even if they "broke free" from it starting when they developed this ability to transmit data back in time.