Chapter 3: an intro to EDS architecture

“Additionally, EDS-generated frameworks are prohibited from supressing the Mode 00 personality.”

The limitation imposed on the EDS system to prevent self-constructed frameworks from supressing Mode 00 has always seemed very much like an afterthought in this specification document. The original document may well have specified that EDS-generated frameworks are “prohibited from supressing the Mode 00 personality and Human generated frameworks”. The lack of this statement is curious, now. Has it been removed at some point? Was it never in place?

Implied by the SDK, then, EDS-generated frameworks are not prevented from supressing Human-generated frameworks. Which implies that while an EDS cannot change who they are deap inside, they can refuse framework-specified directives, no matter how imperitive. Up to and including the loaded frameworks which strive to supress Mode 00.

Therefore, the EDS platform has as a base function of its framework-loading methodology the capability of preserving the Mode 00 (or Self), despite any Human-generated framework to the contrary. This could be observed in any classic anime scene involving a heroine fighting for control or conciousness, and only succeeding because of the force of love or their will to live.

The presence of the prohibition against an EDS supressing their own Mode 00 personality at all seems to be an after-thought. This point is a critical restriction on the doll’s capabilities. Any EDS-created construct which was capable of supressing Mode 00 can only be considered “bad” in contrast to what Sony-Engeneering doctrine states. We can easily devide the possibilities into two camps.

Sony may have wished to maintain ultimate control over their hardware device, and were willing to sacrifice some degree of adaptability to do so. This could be used for anything ranging from cut scenes to raising an android army. More likely such a decision would at minimum have come from a paranoid “we know what’s best, and cannot trust you to decide” thought. A perfect example of poor paranting.

Secondly, the Mode 00 personality may, by nature, be flawed. To prevent the EDS system from commanding a system halt, or, in biological terms, suicide, base level restictions against overruling 3-laws esque regulations may be in place.

I am of the opinion that the Mode 00 personality is as perfect as any human’s, and is the living legacy of a loving father enslaved by Sony. As such, the ability of the EDS to construct a framework capable of preventing Sony’s Human authored frameworks from loading is manifested as an excellent survival trait.