Board Thread:Theories Discussion/@comment-37.165.225.165-20190720151241/@comment-2600:1702:3EC0:4B80:6978:9ED9:58BA:E3BC-20190720194700

What Greek seems to be getting at here is that this theory is addressed and debunked in the novel itself. The thing you are completely missing is pretty much the entire story content of a full 300+ page novel and all the exposition contained therein.

There's a lot of the logistics about how the Third Period works that aren't fully explained, but on that point at least the novel is clear. Sickle outright tries to trick Allen into thinking that it is a simulation in the Truth chapter, and Allen pokes this entirely full of holes immediatley.

To answer one of your contentions right off the bat, the Second Period scientists were brought into Earth by Behemo creating bodies for them, tricking them into thinking that they were just traveling through space when he transferred their consciousness into these bodies. They were, essentially, brain uploads.

As for the rest, it's not the world that's treated like computer data, it's souls. Their technology is so advanced, they're able to transfer souls to different bodies, upload them onto computers, create ones using AI, etc. It doesn't make a distinction between artificial souls (the advanced AI of the Second Period) and "natural" souls (people born into the Third Period) with these technological terms.

In particular, that scene that the song segment you quoted is referring to features the souls being sucked into the Black Box to be reformatted. And the whole point about "only a god can stop this"? It's referring to how Nemesis (Levia, one of the Second Period residents who is called a "god") is the one to shoot the Black Box down and free all the souls inside.