Heisei 30: An Evil Broke Forth Out of the North

"Say that in a highly developed information society, information comes to act upon us the way an environment does. Might it not become so."

"Photosynthesis begins with the light of the sun. Up until yesterday, even if we could reproduce that mechanism inside the digital, as a practical matter it had no effect on the real."

"And if it came to have one? If digital biological matter were released into analog, real space?"

"If that came to pass, the route of our birth would settle into no more than the difference between the chlorophyll type and the retinal type, a difference of that order, and in elementary school, say, we would explain it as simply photosynthesis, nothing more."

"Then what if the data of the dead themselves were set loose into such a world? Whether I could meet that child again."

"....................."

"So that such a time never comes, there are regulations, there are organizations. Which is to say, we are trying to live as human beings."

"......Let us make a wager. If, before my body fails and I die, I can meet that child again: I win."

"A fermentation made by minus-creation does not look like a very good future."

"All the more reason, one can say. What lies beyond the thinking subject as human beings conceive it: that, you may entrust to the children of a hundred years from now."

"If I make a world without that grief in it, do I win?"

"..............."

"Living in the very midst of machine and nature mixing together."

"The human and the not-human, mixing."

"It comes to turning kami into hotoke."

"Knowing all this, I set this adrift."

Entered 31 August 2026. A personal addendum by Ōmori Yui.