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Originally Posted by Klashikari
There is one thing that I think needs some clarifications (and might lead to even bigger debate): the laughing coffin member used suxamethonium chloride on Kazuto, which provoked a heart attack.
Considering the descripton given by Kikuoka, it is safe to conclude Kazuto's brain has suffered major damage due to cerebral hypoxia. As such, it isn't as if Kazuto's mind is "shattered". It is more like his brain got screwed by lack of oxygen to the point many cells died. That said, it is possible for someone to recover from a vegetative state, but it highly depends on the extent of the damage done to the brain. Kikuoka stated that "it cannot be healed". This means that Kazuto is definitely brain dead, unless Kikuoka lied.
And to be frank, all the bogus talk about STL generating a new neuronal network is hardly believable, even if you consider "great progress in medical technology", simply because neurons -cannot- proceed with mitosis. If they were talking about some incredible technology that could produce neural stem cells which could serve as neuronal transplant and whatnot, that could be possible in theory. But stimulating brain cells for the neurogenesis? Not a chance, especially this would work only on very specific area of the brain itself.
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Well depending on the amount of damaged cells, it might be that the neural network of the old Kirito shattered, but human mind has a LOOOT of cells, so one might still be able to renetwork the surviving ones.
But even if you do that, I can't really see Kirito remaining unchanged given that his old self is gone. Unless they are going with fucklights being a backup of the brain, which is frankly silluly redundant. But if so, they are counting on his remaining cells to reknit in the image of his old self. This is of course ignoring the issue of his wetware overwriting his fuckware.
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Originally Posted by Frontier
I know it feels like the show tends to have characters give Kayaba a pass (even though Asuna still says what he did was an unforgivable crime) but I always got the sense that the show has always gone for a conflicted view of Kayaba in that his goal and dreams weren't necessarily bad but that the way he went about it was.
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Well, to me this is kinda like people who met and had exciting but dangerous couple of years due to WWII saying that they can't hate Hitler because of it. Which is a bit...
Then again it seems Asuna has intrnalized that Commander = Kayaba, when I'd expect that she would try to divorce these two personalities for her sanity's sake.
Given that I'm only aware of the Abridged version, what WAS his goal and dream?!? Sure it seems to have been to make a VR world where people can live and wonder and like. But how is that accomplished by TRAPPING people and KILLING them if they die in game!?!
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Originally Posted by Frontier
I forget...is it stimulating and re-developing his damaged brain cells? I think that's what the point of it was  . |
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If we use the STL to directly stimulate his Fluctlight we can induce the generation of a new neural network.
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I'm guessing he means that Kirito's FL wasn't affected by brain death (nice brain backup safety feature there we definitely needed to evolve) so they plan to let the FL Kirito play in their world and hope that this will naturally be reflected back on the wetware, like it normally does when you FL VR dive. It's how you are supposed to remember stuff.
It's kinda like if your HDD with your system died because disk faults appeared in the wrong files so you can't boot any longer, but you have a backup of the drive before that. So you WIPE the old drive, section off the faulty bits and copy the backup back in.
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