05-23-2004, 02:50 PM
Whoa Stormywiz, pixie-dust, the blood-type thing was just a joke.
I think what the type thing originally indicated back around the creation of digiworld might have had a simpler connotation and just evolved as the digimon themselves evolved.
Assume digiworld is in it's primordial soup phase, sometime back in the sixties most likely. At the moment there's not actual ecosystem just packets of data fragments floating about. The data is just a middle of the road type of thing like we deal with all the time.
Now someone from our side of the divide inputs a virus that is just as we know them in the way that it corrupts and changes data to follow it's own programming which indicates a bit of an evolution in and of itself.
Someone else sees that his or her mainframe is being screwed over and writes a virus deletion program and classifies it as a vaccine. Now the vaccine program isn't advanced enough for a seek and destroy mentality but just takes out viruses that cause problems within the system.
So now we have all three types doing what they do naturally. Of course this kind of thing happens all over the world which creates different sub-categories that start to evolve as more and more hard drive space, and information is added to various computers around the world. Among the added information are pictures in various formats and explanatory data. Organic myths, legends, and evolutionary data on all the different species of our world are part of this.
The base program of digiworld starts to read this vast amount of archived data and distributes it to the different packets of data and the first digi-eggs are created. The various viruses that are still around continue to corrupt data, now as digi-eggs and the vaccine programs try to counter this thus also being fused with digi-eggs. Sometimes the virus is more advanced and sometimes the vaccine is, meanwhile other digi-eggs stay completely unchanged.
The eggs hatch and start to evolve in what digiworld understands as evolution and from the basic data in the egg decides what alignment that the resultant digimon takes. Now because digimon have a personality they can decide how to live their lives and make their own moral choices.
Now this whole phenomenon confuses the hell out of us in the context that we've got a knee-jerk reaction to be wary of viruses and trust vaccines in the way of both computers and the various diseases we deal with in our day to day lives.
Look at DW1, Myotismon was a benevolent researcher.
In Adventure the same type of digimon was a sociopathic monster.
These digimon made their own moral choices in life that had nothing to do with evolution and assuming that they would make the same choices based on either history or supposed origin of it's type is a profiling mistake that humans are prone to make no matter how liberal or open minded we are (or think we are.)
I think what the type thing originally indicated back around the creation of digiworld might have had a simpler connotation and just evolved as the digimon themselves evolved.
Assume digiworld is in it's primordial soup phase, sometime back in the sixties most likely. At the moment there's not actual ecosystem just packets of data fragments floating about. The data is just a middle of the road type of thing like we deal with all the time.
Now someone from our side of the divide inputs a virus that is just as we know them in the way that it corrupts and changes data to follow it's own programming which indicates a bit of an evolution in and of itself.
Someone else sees that his or her mainframe is being screwed over and writes a virus deletion program and classifies it as a vaccine. Now the vaccine program isn't advanced enough for a seek and destroy mentality but just takes out viruses that cause problems within the system.
So now we have all three types doing what they do naturally. Of course this kind of thing happens all over the world which creates different sub-categories that start to evolve as more and more hard drive space, and information is added to various computers around the world. Among the added information are pictures in various formats and explanatory data. Organic myths, legends, and evolutionary data on all the different species of our world are part of this.
The base program of digiworld starts to read this vast amount of archived data and distributes it to the different packets of data and the first digi-eggs are created. The various viruses that are still around continue to corrupt data, now as digi-eggs and the vaccine programs try to counter this thus also being fused with digi-eggs. Sometimes the virus is more advanced and sometimes the vaccine is, meanwhile other digi-eggs stay completely unchanged.
The eggs hatch and start to evolve in what digiworld understands as evolution and from the basic data in the egg decides what alignment that the resultant digimon takes. Now because digimon have a personality they can decide how to live their lives and make their own moral choices.
Now this whole phenomenon confuses the hell out of us in the context that we've got a knee-jerk reaction to be wary of viruses and trust vaccines in the way of both computers and the various diseases we deal with in our day to day lives.
Look at DW1, Myotismon was a benevolent researcher.
In Adventure the same type of digimon was a sociopathic monster.
These digimon made their own moral choices in life that had nothing to do with evolution and assuming that they would make the same choices based on either history or supposed origin of it's type is a profiling mistake that humans are prone to make no matter how liberal or open minded we are (or think we are.)