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Jiang says fiction feels real because it explains universal truths rather than because it invents arbitrary novelty.
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Reality
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Jiang provocatively argues that pure self-enclosed mathematical world-building can drive people away from reality and the divine rather than closer to it.
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Jiang accepts the student's formulation that Master Adam and Sinon are alike because both manipulate people's perception of reality rather than reality itself.
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Jiang interprets the filter-removal theory as implying that reality may contain more beings and layers than normal consciousness admits, including the possibility of angels, demons, and possession.
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The student's answer, endorsed by Jiang, says fraud is worse than violence because it damages another person's imagination and their ability to perceive reality truthfully.
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Jiang argues that constant lying or cheating undermines faith itself because it makes people question reality, whereas violence does not attack reality in the same way.
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Jiang says treachery is the worst sin because it turns betrayal into a vicious circle, alters the fabric of reality, and makes people want to shape reality against God.
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Jiang says Beatrice must be a real person because the Divine Comedy only works if it is genuinely an act of love rather than a fantasy about an imaginary figure.
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"yes because we read fiction where we read it because it's real to us right because explaining these universal truths to us uh yes..."
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"Do you personally think maybe that's why some mathematicians go crazy? They're getting I agree. Yeah. Can you explain that? They're getting too close..."
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"...from God. Yeah, I think it's because they create the one reality and they've lost connection to the real. And that's why, you know,..."
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"Yes? Um, like, the alchemists, they both changed the nature of reality. So, Master Adam, he basically changed, like, um, he changed money, basically,..."
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"...So, the similarity is that both are changing the perception of reality, right? Both are manipulating the perception of reality. They're not alchemists who..."
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"So if I extrapolate on what you're saying, you're saying that reality itself is much more complex, much more vibrant, much more colorful than..."
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"And so possession is also possible, right? Because the idea is they exist, they're floating around us, and depending on your mood, depending on..."
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"...imagination of someone. And you, like, destroy a part of their reality. For, like, to something that's not even true. So when you kill..."
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"...or people are cheating all the time, that makes you question reality itself. That makes you question your own faith. And so that's problematic,..."
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"...the worst possible, because it is altering the very fabric of reality itself. Okay? Fraud distorts your perception of reality. It makes you misperceive..."
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"I disagree. No, no. No, no. If she were not a real person, if she was just a figment of Dante's imagination, that Vine..."
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"...are things to us phenomena okay so how we interact with reality is we see the nomina and then we filter it through time..."
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