Nami is waiting to fight Akiha. The Existenz stop obeying Nami and go to Akiha side, Aleida explain to Nami that from the beginning Existenz were for Akiha. Nami is shocked
wow... if that's true, that sounds kinda awesome...
According to /m/, while not explained directly, often the death caused in boxes was not due to experimentations but just plain old fashioned boredom and due to the old and heavily ill unable to survive. Due to mental instability, one just merely shuts down and become braindead, rather than turning them to soylent soy, the Brain Boxes was used to continue their life post mortem. Some may reattach themselves to their human bodies with a new lease on life (albeit as wandering mindless zombies, while others claim other people to continue their way of life.
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