Board Thread:VS Debates/@comment-33881745-20190421194116/@comment-39801929-20190814175117

Neosonic97 wrote: Kingo the Sixth wrote:I sorta doubt that. Anything can be called a “soul” but look at how Dark MegaMan is even achieved. It requires computer chips in the end, still ultimately purely technological. The dark power is just another form of energy. For me, it’s telling that rather than being “the soul of Hub”, it’s specifically Hub.BAT. So even if Navis do have souls, those souls are digitised computer programs, 1s and 0s. Otherwise, how would things like those androids Navis can possess in the real world in BN6 work? Idk man.

I swear I’m not racist against NetNavis btw.

I think you're just arguing semantics at this point. A soul is a soul, even if it is the soul of a computer program. While the Dark Chips argument would be a good one, it fails to account for Double Soul.

Hub.Bat is a file because it specifically reverses a physical alteration that Yuichirou made to MegaMan.EXE. Notably, the 0.01% difference between his DNA and Lan's (Which is most likely their eye colour). The reason for this is because if Hub.Bat is used Lan and MegaMan start having a telepathic link. This allows Lan to operate MegaMan at levels far beyond other operators, but this comes at a nasty price of mirroring any damage one of the twins takes onto the other (Meaning that while Hub.Bat is being used, if EXE dies, so does Lan, and vice-versa).

Copybots are machines designed for NetNavis to control from the inside. It's no different than EXE's successor, Geo Stelar, entering a machine to control it. In fact, NetNavis having souls is no different than Wave Beings having souls. The only difference is that their physical forms are made of data rather than EM waves. Trust me, I’m aware. I’m a pretty big Mega Man fan lol. But even if it semantics, the devil’s in the details here. What you said about Hub.BAT only strengthens the idea that their soul is code. Hub.BAT is in essence the last part of Hub’s “soul” turned into a computer file. The fact that it IS a file suggests that Hub’s soul has completely been turned into code, representing his appearance and personality down to the minute details. And I doubt Zarathos can penance stare a goddamn computer program in the end.

Not sure what there is to say about Double Soul lol, it’s just a name. The copybots only strengthen the idea that their soul are made out of data I think, considering it shows they can easily enter other programs and hijack them.

It is semantics, but I think it’s important. It probably does come down to how you want to interpret the Battle Network series though, so agree to disagree I guess?