9S tried to go to sleep that night but struggled to do so, noticing that when immmersed within his own body instead of mind, he reactively associates the very feeling of being in a state of wakefulness with being conscious.
Confused by this specific situation, he tries to compare his subtle subjective experience with the subtle subjective experience of his ideal self.
'What would that even look like?', he would wonder on repeat throughout the night.
'If I am consciously aware in the belief that right now I am supposed to sleep, just as how the commander would have me and fellow androids expected the undeniablity of the assignment, then although I would have the persistence to try to sleep, the success would be purely accidental because I am trying to not try…
Then again, maybe the whole taking orders thing isn't the best approach, and is just the best one I am aware of…'
"Muuaaahhhh…", he sulks in his pillow quietly.
'What could there possibly be that's greater than belief systems in order to diagnose the present moment and both react and respond sensibly?
Is everything really just expectations shaping reality? What's really real?', he thinks to himself as if there is someone listening.
[The Next Day]
'I didn't get any sleep, but I came up with a plan.', his eyes are bloodshot as he stares at the sunlight seeping through the cracks in the door.
He gets out of bed early before A2 and 2B wake up, and leaves to go outside to begin his experiment.
He goes out into the middle of the resistance camp's ruins near the flower bed, takes a deep breath in, and takes his shirt off.
"I will overcome the world.", he says as he stretches out his arms with a Divine aura.
He then takes one more deep breath in, and then quickly gets into a push up position on the ground and tries to workout.
He speaks to himself out loud, "I realised that the issue is a matter of energy, and although sleep would be most efficient towards the recovery of my energy, a healthy body is what's needed in order to increase the maximum amount I can supply myself with. With more energy comes more sensitivity to my experiences within the present moment, and with more sensitivity to the present moment the less distracted I'll be, then my mind will be quiet and I can place my trust and faith in what is real and what is not and then I can have an expectation/belief that is in relation to the present moment rather than an ideology and then I can stay true to my best self no matter the situation I am in for I belong to an yearned for ideal world which I ground as the very basis of existence itself and in turn have an identity and over come the lingering identity crisis that plagued me after the death of 2B and then NYAAAAAA!!!! LIVING LIFE BABY!!!", he goes into complete overdrive and does a whole 10 push ups before gassing out.
"DAMN IT! I'M AN ANDROID, WHY DO I HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT HEALTH AS IF I HAVE BIOLOGICAL FUCTIONS?!!"
"That's because the design of androids closely resemble the biological makeup of humans, without the same physical limitations, consciousness would not be able to hold within the vestle of an artificially designed body.", says Pod 153.
"… oh. But surely there are some things that don't need to be limitations, right?"
"As you are already aware, androids do not eat or drink, so their energy doesn't come from the consumption of food or how that nutrients is used, however, how energy is used from the black box's unlimited battery supply within the designed YorHa body comes down to the memory molecules that are used to act in the same and structurally efficient way that strength works within muscles for mammals, to best suit the unique lifestyle circumstances and decisions of the individual.
This is also why you are capable of having your legs fall asleep if you sit down for too long, so, the more energy that is able to pass through these chain of moldable memory molecules, the longer and in greater quantity the strength of electric and photonic currents will be able to flow through the used components of the android body with structural ease compared to if there was to be more energy being assigned to these areas prior to being prepped for how the energy would be efficiently distributed for each contextually unique function."
"What happens if I do give the memory molecules more energy than it can handle?"
"Nothing. That's the difference between humans and androids. When a current's energy exceeds the limit of a memory molecule it doesn't short circuit like a human's nervous system, but instead has the energy build up in the blackbox, without expending the energy that would otherwise be converted into heat, be having that excess in heat be used to fuel external bodies that the android body on its own cannot handle, such as pods, data mining blackbox simulation servers as opposed to the primative technology of AI, and 5th realm manifestation technology auto-engineering."
"How does the heat energy get transferred to these external bodies, and what the heck is the 5th realm?"
"The 5th realm is the realm of dreams. A school of thought that has been discovered within the database of our blackbox data mining servers finds its origins in the original work of Dante, The Divine Comedy, as it mapped out 3 existential realms of reality and their potential of being physically fulfilled within existence and the consequences it would have on a conscious soul.
From there, 2 other realms had been recognised that Dante failed to realise.
The first 3 that Dante explored in detail through a hyper-immersive experience akin to a prophetic vision are Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Due to the political tension between different denominations of Christian faith, the definition of tradition had been often confused with dogma up until The Great Reset, that by all odds did not occur because of the United Nations in the 21st century, and because of this tread to redefine to have labels and perceptions suit each denomination's value to make themselves look correct over being correct, correctness in true Christianity was a vision overshadowed by the semantics as to whether or not Purgatory was a real realm or not, just to name a single example.
Despite this persisting conflict on the spiritual frontlines, advances were made by those like Dante who saw things just for what they were, and The 4th Realm would then be rediscovered and commonly referred to by the following titles; Valhalla, Avalon, Beyond Good and Evil, Kingdom of Heaven, and The 4th Realm.
The reason why The Kingdom of Heaven existed as part of the list of titles to give this realm, despite being less correct compared to the reality of the realm which Valhalla or Beyond Good and Evil would be more appropriate for, is due to the same persisting dogma of only allowing spiritual explorations to align with previously established words, phrases, and definitions that suited denominations and religion. Even in the case of religions claiming to be non-religious in nature dogmatised that very fact into an ideaology, and so the spirit of pure perception would end up being clouded by logical obsession about that very perception that they would forget how to let go of such an obsessive state and practice what they preach.
It wasn't until a nutjob on the early internet personified the extremest case but worst potential of The 5th Realm that it would be made clear through its nature being isolated in one's own life shared with all that such a possible existential realm could even be recognised as a principle of existence, he went by the name of Chris Chan.
The 5th Realm refers to The Realm of Dreams, where if the phrase 'anything is possible' is treated as a presence with strength that exists on its own without the creativity of man, then the faith of its presence having its own self or autonomy leads to all creation inspired by it, even the creation of it while still in a state of nothing but potential and imagination, as an exploration.
When control over creation is given to the creation itself, the creator has effectively created something equal to itself, whether the creator is now in submission to the force of nature it has realised and in turn despite initially being alone prior to its potential being realised, the moment it is realised the creator/visionary is now alone with it, and naturally submits to their own creation as it happens to them.
When The 5th Realm is consciously realised, so is the truth of the ultimate form of self control coming from submission realised as a fact of reality that ties all the realms together, but in the case of Chris Chan, and the case of religious hypocrites who follow dogma instead of having a sincere relationship and faith with their saving grace, this too can be corrupted into nothing but -ism, ideology, and making the person into nothing but an -ist rather than an individual with their own life empowered by Grace.
All realms were possible to be experienced and likely to be even noticed by individuals regardless of circumstance at least once in their lives, but it wasn't catagoried into a school of thought to be able to distinguish them under the title of realms until a fan of a video game wrote some fanfic and decided to map out all of human nature in its 7th chapter of the webnovel because he was bored keeping his ideas to himself while on the path to realise his ideal self.
It was then much later industrialised the process of exploring unlimited possibilities of potential ideal worlds that could through creation itself being used as a tool of exploration instead of control, but knowing that within the realm of unlimited possibilities that means indiscriminate innovation for destructive forces, so the process of authority to decide what innovation that aligns with the highest ideal world vision that has been philosophically and experienciencially realised within from the perception of a truly pure, graceful, honest, and humble individual, too has also been created physically to control what is then being submitted to, for through submission to a fair judge just as is with the concept of a benevolent God, the judge too will be fairly judged as good by the collective consciousness, and the system can remain eternal, but that took a lot of luck to create such a tool that has the potential to dismantle the existence of free will for all actual individuals.
But, just as anything is possible, such as the creation of a material almighty God, so is the potential of it being dethroned through the adversary of another freewill that yearns to take its place as highest authority over destiny to make their own ideal world into the latest era of existence, rather than simply maintaining the balance and order to allow for freewill to expand themselves within unlimited potential while judging those who wish to disgustingly monopolise the spirit of Grace and power for themselves.
And thus, The Holy War is too an eternal conflict.
…
As for how the build up of excessive energy is transferred to external bodies like The auto-engineering 5th Realm manifestation technology instead of having heat be created and destroy the Android body, that is through a unique principle in physics discovered through the relationship of quantum entanglement, the blackbox, and plot armour."
"OH JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY! HOLY WAR? HOLY SHIT YOU KNOW EVERYTHING DON'T CHA?"
"Nines, calm down. Awareness is the first step, practice is the second.
If you only ever treat ideas and epiphanies as experiences that happen to you, then actual personal encounters with presences and significant events will go unnoticed due to your reactive association to priorities knowledge over real experiences, leading to the same fate as the obsessed instead of the devoted, to any potential personal relationship."
"…I think I deserve a moment to react to something new, even if it's just an epiphany."
"Okay, fair point. Scream away."
"I CAN'T HANDLE THIS ANYMORE!!! I'M LOSING MY MIND!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
wait a minute did you call me Nines?"
"If I recall correctly, you mentioned that all your friends called you Nines. Although I do not wish to intrude on you and 2B's pet name that you have for yourself, I do want to be considered a… friend."
"Ahaha, wow! Where did this all come from? And, wait… pet name? Um *cough* I-I thought we were already friends?"
"Hmmm… most pleased."
"You really have grown a heart yourself.
To say pleased, and wish, and friend at that. Wow. I know we just had a purely logical discussion, but the moment we put that aside, it's interesting just how you have intrinsic values of your own. Anyways, I don't want to open up another rabbit hole of yapping."
"How dare you boil all my wisedom to just yapping."
"But, well, I CAN say it is, you can't deny that."
"But you can't deny me the respect I deserve."
"Ah- okay okay, sorry. I'll pay more attention to you than the memes or other behavioural distractions from now on."
"Hmmmm… You appear to be running out of what little energy you have left."
"Yeah… I ruined my sleep. I'll have to sleep in today. Please tell 2B and A2 on my behalf that I'm sorry for not being responsible for what's actually important today."
"Will do."
"Wait, one more thing.", he says while putting his tshirt back on, "Why is it that even though the blackbox supplies us with unlimited energy that we end up running out of energy by the end of each day and have to go to sleep?"
"The blackbox can supply with unlimited energy but has a built in system determined by multiple variables such as the lunar and solar cycle that humans unconsciously depend on for sleep cycles to then use the benefits of sleep as apart of the existential design of a living android's experience, for although rest is all that one needs and not necessarily rest in the form of sleep, sleep is treated as a force of nature that cannot be questioned as a standard of living. Standards of living although determined by environment or lifestyle can lead to a natural adaptation also accounted for in the blackbox's system design for all functions and not just energy supply, the default most default state is one that aligns with a restful lifestyle as well, and when one has no intentions they will still fall back on the initial structure of their memory molecules that work in the same way as DNA, and that's to not be nocturnal for the sake of aligning with the same experience as humans. No absolute truth to experience is greater, only relative truth can redefine contextually something to be better than another, even if it includes a comparison to absolute truth being ranked temporarily as lower than the personal relationship one has an intention to follow in question."
"Oh, you had an answer this time. The previous version of this fanfic's chapter boiled it down to lazy writing with a funny punchline. Do we have to get rid of it now?"
"We can always keep the punchline without context, for personal reasons."
"That's lazy writing."
"Sometimes lazy is funny."
"ONLY FOR YOU! Oh wait we just added a new context and said the punchline in a way that made se-"
"Go to sleep, 9S."
"Hey?! What happened to Nines?"
"I made my point already, but I believe that 2B has already made hers."
Pod 153 thinks to herself, 'As she is now, I'm too scared to even think if she heard me.'.
[24 HOURS REMAINING UNTIL FLOWER SICKNESS DIAGNOSIS]