Doki Doki Literature Club did require suspension of disbelief, but... I think it's actually a meta-narrative based on establishing the tropes of visual novels (done by the relatively boring first third of the game being played straight-up normally until the plot twist). Once you have some degree of investment in the characters, the story can then work off of that-- now you have the characters "in your head", to some extent.
My theory behind synecdoches was that they drew on a "memetic space", a shared subconscious created by the power of human imagination. It's why it was so important that the AIs/supercomputers running these simulations were doing so using human brains -- without that element, they would have been simply mechanically perfect simulations, but with no further "magical" power. My concept was that early magic, folklore, fairy tales, etc. were the result of historical imaginative universes. Whatever you can get a sufficient number of people to believe in with great enough detail... Then begins to take on a life of its own in the shared subconscious.
From there, it simply took "sufficiently advanced technology" to be able to tap into these unreal spaces.
Of course I don't actually believe that works in real life. };)
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Date: 2018-09-18 12:30 am (UTC)My theory behind synecdoches was that they drew on a "memetic space", a shared subconscious created by the power of human imagination. It's why it was so important that the AIs/supercomputers running these simulations were doing so using human brains -- without that element, they would have been simply mechanically perfect simulations, but with no further "magical" power. My concept was that early magic, folklore, fairy tales, etc. were the result of historical imaginative universes. Whatever you can get a sufficient number of people to believe in with great enough detail... Then begins to take on a life of its own in the shared subconscious.
From there, it simply took "sufficiently advanced technology" to be able to tap into these unreal spaces.
Of course I don't actually believe that works in real life. };)