07th Expansion Cosmology

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=07th Expansion Cosmology=
==Introduction==
The 07th verse is a collection of Ryukishi's works which all bare a correlation to each other either outrightly, or indirectly. The cosmology is expansive with 3 main domains, and multiple worlds called Territories, that are all their own stories. These stories contains multi-dimensional realms, spiritual worlds, classic multiverses and quantum integrated elements. Then there are higher domains above these stories, that go up infinitely on a literal metaphysical journey where there lies an ultimate endpoint that's free from all concepts called "restrictions", there resides a figurative nothing, where beings have the ability to create anything. 
==Human Domain==
This is the first and lowest domain of the verse, which is often used as a term that implies a world with multiple "layers" or existential stratums. There are multiple references to it so we are just going to focus on the stories (within the human domain) and analyze their overall structure without unnecessary details. 
===TRIanthology===
To start, although this work came out after Umineko, it provides a good starting point for the relationship between tales and fragments. First, our main character tells us that three separate fragments are in fact connected in a hierarchy.
File:77C0A89A-5C3D-4FC5-840A-FA76333248DB.jpg|"この３つの世界は一見、独立しているが、どこかで繋がっている。 At first glance, these three worlds are independent, but they are connected somewhere."
File:D23AE56D-F70A-4D14-8BAA-DB0E2C751F81.jpg|【アリス】「わかったっ。・・・つまり宇宙戦 争の世界は、畏人の遊んでいるFPSゲーム の世界なのよ」 “I see.. ...In other words, the world of Space War is the world of FPS games that people play.''
File:5F7C7B56-AC6A-4361-9C04-385CAF3FBEB2.jpg|「つまり、宇宙戦争世界とラノペ 学園世界は、上下関係で繁がっているのよっ ``And the world of Space War and the world of light-based school are connected through a hierarchical relationship.
File:8849FF0F-71FB-48E8-957B-15266D04053F.jpg|それに気付けば、さらにもう1つの世界、あ の青春的田舎世界との関係も説明できそうな気 がする Before I knew it, I felt like I could explain the relationship with yet another world, that youthful rural world...
Here's the rest of the exchange in these two - links. 
*オンラインゲーム的に解釈するなら、桂子と いうキャラのプレイヤーがブラッドであると告 白したようなもの。 【アリス】「禁がったわ。・・・‥なるほど、マ インドケアマシンって、こういうことだった のね」 宇宙戦争の世界では、マインドケアマシンは、 精神休養の為に、現実逃避の夢を与える機械と 説明されていた。 平和な生活を仮想体験させる、これも一種の オンラインゲーム的なものなんだ。【アリス】「確かに、幹彦たちの田舎世界は とてものどかで、あの宇宙戦争の世界には相 応しい"精神休養"になるわ」 そうなれば、桂子もまた、そののどかな田舎ラ イフを楽しむ為のキャラクターと判断できる。 第1のカケラの青春的田舎世界。あの中で確 か、引き電もりになった幹彦は、ゲームに没頭 していた。
*【アリス】 「....つまり、第 1のカケラの田 舎世界で幹彦がプレイしているゲームが、第 2のカケラのラブコメ学園世界で‥ 【アリス】「第2の世界で畏人が遊んでいる FPSゲームの世界が、第3の、宇宙戦争の 世界で 【アリス】「その宇宙戦争の世界の、マイン ドケアマシンの夢の中が、第1のカケラの田 舎世界であると・・・・・つ」 【アリス】「つまり、ジャンケンのような関 係ね。グーチョキパーグーチョキパー」【アリス】「私は最初、上下関係のある世界 だと考えていたし、それは間違ってはいない けれど」 【アリス】「上下関係がグルグルと回って、 輪になっているわ」 自分が夢として楽しんでいる世界でも、また 誰かが夢を見て別の世界を楽しんで。その別世 界の誰かが見ている夢が、今の自分の世界であ ったなんて。・・・・・・なんてややこしいっ。
"If you were to interpret it in terms of an online game, it would be like a player with a character named Keiko confessing that she is Brad.. 
[Alice] “...I see, that's what a mind care machine is.'' In the world of War of the Worlds, a mind care machine is explained as a machine that gives you dreams of escaping reality for mental rest.. This is also a kind of online game that lets you experience a peaceful life virtually..
[Alice] ``Certainly, Mikihiko and his friends' rural world is very idyllic, and it's a perfect ``mental rest'' for the world of Space War.'' If that happens, Keiko will also enjoy that idyllic rural life. It can be judged as a character for fun.. The youthful rural world of the first fragment. I'm sure Mikihiko was immersed in the game when he turned on the lights."
【Alice】 ". . . . In other words, the game that Mikihiko is playing in the rural world of the first fragment is the romantic comedy school world of the second fragment. , in the third world of War of the Worlds..
"..The dream of the mind care machine in the world of Space War is the rural world of the first fragment..." 
``In other words, it's like a rock-paper-scissors relationship.. 
``At first, I thought that the world had a hierarchical relationship, and I'm not wrong about that. ``The hierarchical relationship revolves around and around, forming a circle. I enjoy it as a dream. Even in this world, someone dreams and enjoys another world.. I couldn't believe that the dream someone in that other world was having was my current world.. .....how confusing..
^As seen in these texts it's very clear that all fragments (in terms of alternate territories) are in a hierarchy, but if the "circle" part seems confusing it was only in reference to the structure of how alice was trying to reach her truth. Each loop through the three fragments must've created a "circle" bigger than the last, given alice - went - through all of them and there's an infinite amount. 【ウサギ】「そして、あなたの思い描く理想 の学校生活を、ゲーム上で再現しようと、現 実から逃避する」 【アリス】「私は魔女だもんッ。カケラも世 界もテレビのチャンネルと同じ!」そうしてあなたはいくつものカケラを食い潰 してきた。もう、逃げ込めるカケラさえもなく。 なってきた! 
[Rabbit] ``Then you escape from reality in order to recreate the ideal school life you imagine in a game.'' [Alice] ``I'm a witch.''. Fragments and the world are just like TV channels!" That's how you ate up so many fragments.. There's no longer even a kakera that you can escape to!And this of course goes extremely well with how Bernkastel could make a bigger catbox than beatrice's with only a couple fragments in EP 7. 
So from all of this, we can conclude all fragments are connected in a hierarchy especially with meta-references we get, like higanbana seeing Umineko as a play/fictional work, Umineko seeing higurashi as a novel, so on and so forth. 
===Higurashi When They Cry===
We are confirmed that within the territory there are infinite possible fragments, following the parallel world definition. 
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This is the territory lord Hanyuu who views them as "pieces" or fiction 
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And then inside the tale we are told that there are infinite timelines based off MWI and a fifth dimension that works off a kind of "vibrational" resonance.
Then there are universes that are simply dreamed up and hanyuu can release them from the causal restriction of that fragment. 
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And we know there's a lower world of fiction, and in fact a game event from Higurashi mei (which i don't own) as well that prove there is infinite layers of R>F's.
And for the context of MWI, we have an official confirmation from ryukishi that is the concept being used. 
 You probably know that sides of a die go from 1 to 6. You can predict what number will come up when you throw a die, but with logic, you can find out that the most likely outcome is 7 when you throw two dice and 14 when you throw four. Now, if we return to the starting point, the question is what is the average when you throw one die. Coming from what we figured out, several numbers are most likely to come out.
 “The number that will most likely come out is 3,5”. There are probably quite a few people who will come up with that conclusion.
 However, a die only has numbers from 1 to 6. In other words, it’s not possible to get 3,5. Probably, a die that has a side with 3,5 isn’t sold anywhere. I guess some people will try to get close to 3,5 by throwing a die multiple times, but it’s “an average you get when you throw several dice”, not “a die”. The numbers on the sides of dice are from 1 to 6, and the probability of getting each number exists at the “same time” equally.
 Like in a game of odd and even, you put die into an opaque cup. What number will die inside a cup show? I’d like to say it’s 3,5, but that number isn’t carved out on a die.
 Which means, there are 6 “worlds” inside a cup, each for one side of a die. This hypothesis of 6 worlds existing at the same time is called “Many-worlds theory” or “Everett’s theory” in quantum mechanics.
 Now, with that story, I attempted to present you with my clumsy writing the famous in the world quantum mechanics problem of “Schrödinger’s cat”. In front of you, there is a “cat box”. You can’t confirm if the cat is alive or not. The cat that is “alive and dead at the same time” is sleeping inside the box.
 I find it enjoyable to speculate if the cat is dead or alive, how it lived if it’s alive and why it died if it’s dead.
This does confirm that the catbox itself would have infinite quantum states which correspond to a Hilbert space's infinite dimensional mathematics as even the fifth dimension is just a possibility inside one fragment. 
=== Umineko When they Cry ===
In Umineko, it’s a lot more complex than Higurashi due to how much more story elements it has. The first thing is that there is two sides to reality, one scientific (human) and the other magical, a spirit world. 
This spirit world is actually likened to a “meta” space or Narrative space where they view the events as fictional. Although both the magic/spirit world are just apart of the “nondual” nature of the catbox. 
In fact following from this assertion we can assume the nature about Umineko’s world-structure, that is a dialetheic one. All claims about the truth are completely valid and actual in the catbox, and are not simply potentialities. So while they stress about worldviews and how they are opposing sides, we know the spirit world exists with certainty even without the acceptance of battler. 
We are also told “truth” as in T or F is neither T or F as of course it’s a non-trivial world that allows for some contradictions.
Next back to the meta-like world, we do know it is superior as opposed to simply the netherworld the island was sucked into because multiple times we are shown that it views the physical world in a fiction-like manner, even acknowledging kinzo meta-narratively as “not existing” and as a higher level world.
The next realm inside the territory is called The Golden Land which is the main [ idea of an “afterlife” that transcends worries, suffering, and the distinction between fantasy and real which allows all to exist there. And also a higher layer since it’s outside the main gameboard]. However there's something interesting, Maria can make her own golden land like in the battle between her and erika and we are told that she views this as fiction as she (being outside her gameboard) is a higher order being. This is perfectly valid scaling as maria tells ange people's perspectives of the world are real because it reflects their internal universes. This of course includes Gods, demons and spirits. 
We also have Gaap's darkness, which transcends any concept of space and time and lies outside it. It is also inside the territory so it definitely applies to the Human domain described as being in between the magic and human world.
Also given the quantum nature of the catbox we can infer that it is likely also a hilbert space since the Dice analogy is also used when describing other possibilities. 
===Higanbana (When the Spider Lilies Bloom)===
This is the third main verse that adds a sense of cosmology to 07th as a whole. 
So obviously, there is a human world and a spirit world. The spirit world is even a “Night Domain” which implies it has it’s own set of laws, and layers as opposed to the human world which is very much supported as we will see.
All demons and yokai have a wave-length in which they can be interacted with, this does mean that they exist in their own layer in a sense. A reference to Umineko’s great 72 demons is even made. 
Apart from this we are also introduced to Kyou a yokai whose domain is the mirror world also governs the boundary between dreams and reality which is day dreams. All of these worlds are recognized as real. In fact the nature of these things combined lead to a recursion. Here's the reasoning.
-The Mirror World or rather Mirrors as a particular reflect the truth, meaning each is an entire reality of its own. Conventionally these mirror's exist inside the world of daydreams, and dreams. As copies of the youkai kyou exist, and the mirror world is his domain. The World of daydreams allows for one to exist in a dream and reality at the same time.
-The World of Dreams, is existing in a state of reality that while you are sleeping as your soul is real within another reality, including afterlives such as izanami’s himself or the spiritual side of the school since that's where the myths of youkai's are supposed to be. In the context of this argument, the Mirror World has true copies of reality as a whole. 
Which would mean its own world of reality and dreams exist, which conversely means these dreams have their mirror's, so on and so forth. The idea for this, is that since even a youkai's own personal domain can contain copies of the spiritual side of the school, it means the school can contain infinite versions of itself an infinite number of times. When discussing a dream, izanami says it isn't strictly being a dream in the context of a fantasy, but that it is in fact real. 
Daydreams, also, explicitly discuss how one can dream in there meaning to some degree everything is interconnective, and repeats itself but this also applies to a youkai's domain such as renoir's. To recap, the world of mirrors lead to beings who dream, which allow for mirror's to be in those dreams, meaning dreams and reality have a boundary in each world, which supports daydreams existing which allows for dreams to be inside one. Basically a dream within a dream. In which even Iwaihime (a story also written by ryushiki) draws an outright inspiration from/
There is also of course as mentioned, renoirs world of fictions, but while his ability is to dive into 2-D, we know the worlds themselves are not as there’s even an infinite non-euclidean space. This also means though that for each dream and it’s dream inside it should have it’s own set of dimensions. Which would imply an infinite hierarchy.
====Summary====
So far we have a 1-A/1-A+ cosmology as the human domain is an infinite hierarchy of stories, which in themselves have infinite hierarchies of dimensions based on Hilbert space dynamics, narrative layers which include possibilities beyond space/time, and dreams within dreams, and so on. Each fictional story is considered "more real" than the previous even introducing things like cyclical hierarchies, and a standard that interaction is impossible without special means proving superiority. Alongside that, we have concepts such as alternate worlds, parallel universes, and quantum mechanics.
==Witch Domain==
To start off, this domain is also an infinite hierarchy. However unlike the human domain it goes beyond the physical and spiritual dimensions as defined, being referred to as a conceptual hierarchy, made of “restrictions” but the very first restriction they transcend is the material world entirely. A few examples of what they transcend is time, death/life, (gravity), identity, soul, etc. 
Aside from even this we are also explicitly told that the only “limitation” of a witch is her own imagination. As they are “self-transcending”  beings, not one identity applies to them as they’re main characters of their story as such can write themselves anyway way they want including their weaknesses.
And apart from the internal hierarchy of being in 07th being conceptual there is also a “meta” analogue to it, where witches see the lower layers as fragments or even as a script, backing up the idea that any form of interaction is really just from a “staged” reality. And because meta beings dwell in a higher order world rather than the human domain, they cannot interact with the gameboard itself, which is symbolic of reality inside fragments. As a result, the world itself is inaccessible from the standpoint of the witch domain. In that world, reality has no meaning; this is supported by the context as well. The scene's context is that they can't physically touch the gameboard's reality since it's more fiction to them, and if they don't have pieces they can't control, there's no way for them to intervene in the story.
As well as the level of witch having a type of “ontic” barrier right before the meta-world that prevents internal evolution from inherently making you existentially higher. This of course goes back to the hierarchy of restrictions, which is said to be a journey of "endeavors/efforts" which in context refer to ascending to higher planes either thru consciousness or sheer will. This is mainly it for the witch domain besides of course the true sea of fragments where all other territories exist which can be relatively anything ranging from full blown universes to delusions (which are just real anyway). 
===Duality between finite/infinite and the sea of zero===
The difference between infinity and the finite is a common theme in the first episodes of Umineko (question arc) and then appear with subtle elements in later EP's. This is an important duality inverse because it demonstrates how far above beings with less restrictions than witches are so powerful and outright scary. In Episode 3 we technically are introduced to two characters, Virgillia and Eva-Beatrice and in the very opening we see a flashback of Virgillia telling young beatrice that a true endless witch is not limited to anything in the world and that it's a state above everything and thinking you have reached it is probably just inexperience. 
Endless Magic is also stated to be above finality, however there is still a distinction that makes them dual concepts, right after this scene we are told by Beatrice that description of endless magic is not truly endless and something Eva will never reach and by Ronove that True endless nature is the unification and understanding of both the finite and infinite. That is the true endless/infinite. In Lambdadelta's memoirs we get a little more on infinity as a topic and we are told there's discrete miracles represented by the finite magic and certainty represented by an infinite sequence.
Both of these however are from the same "origin". This brings us to the Magical sea which all creators and beginner witches can access but of course some lose this ability as they leave their roots. This "0" is negation of Being, but in a sense is also the ground, this is because bad infinity cannot create anything (the word miracle in that scan is important), but a power that either can create 1 or recognizes the true nature of God can. Gods and Creators have the inherent nature to be above "miracles", "fate", and "endless" but at the same time are abilities of creation by themselves that when it comes in contact with 0, it creates 1, and infinity which will be explained in the next section too. Based on this (and our next topic) we can see that Third domain entities and Creators, are above any potentiality/actuality of infinity [among other things], and are even so to speak self-determinate but that is a separate topic, here we only refer to infinity as a concept because it is also recognized mathematically, which indicates that infinite higher orders of infinity are completely transcended by previous said beings.
==Kingdom of God==
This is the “third” domain of the 07th expansion cosmology, and while it is not explicitly name dropped there are ways to approach it. 
Firstly, in EP 8, Erika tells us there are witches that are essentially identical to “God” or creators. In fact the raw scan tells us: 
「遥か上層の、霞んで見えないくらいに上層の大魔女は、もはや神や造物主と同じ存在です。 ・・・.そんな連中から見 れば、私たちの物語なんて、果たして一冊にまとめる価値 があるかどうか」 Great Witches, who are so far above in an upper layer, so hazy that you can't see them, already has the same existence as God or a Creator.. .... From the perspective of those people, is our story really worth compiling into a single book?
Which strongly implies this domain to be real, in fact let’s back this up further by an assortment of statements, when featherine went into the 0 point where restrictions dissolve, she was revived by bernkastel and returned as something transcendent to even witches. According to bernkastels letter, this is not exclusive to featherine and Beatrice had in fact been approaching that level. In fact, the "source" of magic Y is their conceptual law that spans over all of creation (the ladder). 
This is why, all magic is intrinsically related to God, such an endless and origin magic being their prime ability, miracles representing how cruel God is, Fate/Certainty being notion of the ladder, being able to achieve anything by wishes and efforts represents God and creation. This should definitely prove, that third domain beings among the conceptual form of voyagers are completely beyond the Witch domain since even physical "layers" technically breakdown, and their conceptual forms are constants above the pluralistic logic of any potential/actual world. 
From this point, this brings us to the last "layer"/restriction which is the point where any identity applied is just a role and that's what the witch of theatergoing represents, an entity outside all those perspectives. Then the zero point, where there are no restrictions, including "existing" and thus without outside help any hope of revival is impossible and the power of creation at its most expansive span is a hinderance as it is a world for people with no will.
Creators are even said to be omnipotent with no "ground to stand on", which implies that they're totally beyond any aspect of the verse which includes its paradoxes, logic, infinity, finite, fate etc. This should warrant them (as well as Gods too) to be beyond subject and object duality, this duality entails things with conscious bear relation to another subject and the thing they view (object), and they are stated to be outside that relation since they are naturally identity-less without their memories, therefore since there's a lack of individuality the only way for creator's to produce is interact with themselves. As such they must continuously transcend themselves and the worlds they produce which go back to 0. 
 「・・・・・・でも聞かせて欲しいの。神も造物主も、誰に認められずとも 神であり造物主よ?" But I want to hear it. A God and Creator are still Gods and creators without anyone recognizing them.
 物質的なニンゲンの世界から判離・解放されてカケラの狭間を渡り歩けるのが私達魔女…
 We witches are the ones who can walk between the fragments, separated and freed from the material world of the Ningen...
 そして私遼より更に上位…全ての制約から解放された全知全能の造物主が神…
 And even higher than me, are the omniscient and omnipotent Creators/Gods, free of all constraints...
In conclusion, Gods and Creators are Omnipotent and Omniscient self-determinate entities with no restrictions, and the zero point is where all individuality and being dissolves, being above any notion of creation and themes, likewise transcending themselves otherwise they'd be in a position where they can be created or perceived which is a subject-object relationship. 
==The Plurality of Worlds==
Everything so far has really just been common knowledge although it is important. But now I’d like to take a moment to explain the fundamental aspects of fragments and their relation to modality. 
While modality is never explicitly name dropped inverse, I have already shown a little of how Schrodinger’s catbox is used but the context before this is very important. Firstly, the whole plot of Umineko, is to provide an inference whether deductively, consistently, magically (etc) if witches exist/don’t exist, who’s the culprit of the murders, so on and so forth. So among episodes 1-3 he’s confined to an extremely limited logical framework (classical) so his argumentation used to disprove witches is extremely hard especially with witches using “devil’s proofs” almost the whole time, as well as Hempel’s raven. 
It isn’t until after Virgillia explains how they’re in a “space that allows for more than one interpretation” that he can expand his reasoning and not constantly feel trapped under beatrice’s reasoning. In fact the very nature of these battle’s is explicitly logical reasoning and hence why battler did not use endless nine to deny eva-beatrice for example, or beatrice’s likewise using her own magic. 
So from this we can clearly see a scope of modality, which involves both classical and paraconsistency and from the scans i already posted in the Umineko section, it’s clear that it is not only logical inferences, but possibilities such magical vs scientific worlds. 
And this is only one territory out of an infinite amount in the sea of fragments in which logic and rules of one gameboard do not apply to another as seen when battler tries to deny higanbana and yet she easily wins. 
Another thing we can further use for modality is the nature of both magic and mystery. Mystery as a genre explicitly calls for rules that can be assert as self-evident truths (red truths) that apply to the gameboard which is most exemplified by Van Dines rules and Knox’s commandments, however both are neither necessity’s for the games, only a method of approaching the mystery, this clearly shows us that, while these rules can be used they ultimately do not undermine the inferences created by magic, because once you deny reasoning you just end up back in fantasy. So it would be accurate to say they only apply to their scopes in application as such most laws of logic therefore are not intrinsically necessary. 
This brings us to the next key part of our argument for a reality based on modality. What exactly does it mean to have the power of creation. This is a topic explored in umineko which starts off with a main object, a fragment. Fragments are the conceptual embodiment of not only different fates, but possibility/potentiality as an idea. This is why fragments can have VASTLY different worlds with different rules, for example When the fireflies Glow is a survival game based on literal Buddhism, with them traveling different layers of hells. 
This is further elaborated on in Umineko Saku where a creator/witch provide a theme to write about, which itself of course refers to the world and its rules, the theme dictates what relationships the tale may have and as such are capable of creating “anything”. For example, umineko is about infinite universes of an island and its murders, Higurashi is about Takano trying to become god and purposely attain that goal by diminishing Rika, Higanbana is about yokai and how humanity is limited in comparison to the world of the dead, so on. 
Hence why it is acknowledged featherine does not work alone but likely with other spectator witches/great witches or territory lords. And other worlds may even work on a completely different framework like Higurashi being probabilistic logic.
Based on this we can come to the conclusion that modality is a concept even if subtle and would in fact be applicable to the conceptual nature of the verse, hence this should separate the keys between "Manifestation" and "Conceptual form" for relatively all witches even Featherine. "I was brought into existence as a emissary to take care of the pieces sent by the Great Lady Aurora, the majestic Witch of Theatergoing, Drama, and Spectating. If Lady Aurora is the flame that ignites the great candle, the mainstay of the world, then i am a enshrined being, a candle of that degree, whose was given fire from the flame of the Lady Aurora."
==Conclusion==
To summarize everything, I will format everything in this following quote:
Human Domain: 1-A/1-A+ as whole, worlds that functions off multiple hierarchies in themselves which all combine into One domain. 
Witch Domain: 1-A+ Witches are entirely separate from the extensions of the human domain and its concepts, being an entire infinite hierarchy of its own which internally function off an infinite ladder of restrictions. 
True Sea of Fragments/Sea of zero: 1-T, all stories come from this sea, and have a sense of modality that can be logical or metaphysical possibilities, which include a scope of paraconsistent/classical worlds. 
Third Domain: Physically High 1-A/Conceptually 1-T+, This domain is even more unrestricted than the world of witches which contains all possible layers based on infinite evolution and the duality between finite and infinity. Conceptually beyond the possible themes of a fragment's and their modality, which the sources of magic are also above being inherent concepts of "god".
Zero point: 1-T+ Possibly High 1-T, exist beyond any and every concept/determination of transcendence exceeding any rules and fragments which ultimately mean nothing to them as they are Omnipotent creators with zero restrictions including their own existence.
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