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Originally Posted by Solace
Well you can look at it two ways. One way is that they are humans who changed into another creature. Another way is that they are creatures who are becoming more human.
Put another way, does an object exist because of your awareness, or in spite of it? By this I'm referring to the unconscious effect psychic powers have on everything around the remaining humans.
Are the bakenezumi evolving to become more human because unconsciously humans are imprinting human characteristics on them? The term for this is anthropomorphism - something that we do all the time, even unconsciously.
Or were they humans who changed? Did psychic powers from humans who felt superior to normal humans change those normal humans into (what we would consider) inferior, disgusting creatures?
With the emphasis the story places on how much the society tries to control their influence on their surroundings, one has to wonder how the unleashing of psychic power warped the reality of the world. Species don't change so rapidly over a thousand years without outside help. What we see in SSY is the result of human interference with natural evolution. |
I think the presence of the naked mole rats in the lab implies that the Bakenezumi were selectively bred like the tainted cats were after them.
As for them becoming more human, Saki and Satoru think they might have captured and are consulting one of those mobile talking slimy libraries. They also idolize humans and presumably actively mimic us/them.