An open world design -《Middle World》

Style

The world is in Asia steampunk style.

Physical World / Spiritual World

The World is mainly classified into two parts, the “Physical World” (物理界) and the “Spiritual World” (靈界). The Physical world is the world where things are called “living” and have a physical body on the stage of Multiverse and Parallel Universe. Spiritual World is the world for death and soul. It exists in every Universe; it is an eternal space and time for psychic flow. For example, in the New Testament of the Bible (2 Cor. 12:2-4) said there are three heavens, which are the sky, the cosmos and the Paradise. God is in paradise and it is the area for Catholic and Christian to continue their eternal second life. The sky and cosmos are Physical Worlds and Paradise is the Spiritual World.

Spiritual World

Spiritual World has two stages. The final stage we called “Heaven”. It is the place for souls. Buddhist scriptures inside “Chinese Buddhist Canon”(大藏經) and “Great Treatise on the Perfection of Wisdom”(大智度論) told if living creatures want to reach Heaven, they have to eliminate their sins, feelings and desire toward the mortal life, otherwise, they will keep Samsāra (輪迴) (cyclicality of all life, matter, existence) for many times. The first stage is the stage between the Physical World and the Final stage. It is the lower world, the underworld where creatures have to go through a trial, see whether they are guilty or virtuous. That will affect whether they will go to Heaven, Samara or Hell.

Middle World

“Middle World” (滅念界) is inside the Spiritual World in each Universe. It is an Eternal existence and the first stage of the Spiritual World for the souls of robots. The ‘soul’ of robots will be sent to the Middle World when they are dead. They need to clean up their six emotions and five desires (五情六欲) inside the middle world if they want to go to Heaven.

Middle World in multiverse

A Middle World

Middle World is in the shape of an inverted pyramid surrounded by interstellar cloud. The top face is like a big city which contains three entrances, seven Temples and a “heart” surrounded by mountains of buildings.

• Buildings are a projection of robot souls’ memories. Buildings grow when a new soul come and corrupt when a soul is gone. Only the doors, Temples and Heart will exist eternally.

• The three entrances are linked to the human world, Heaven and other Middle World. All robot souls are come from the human world entrance and go to Heaven from Heaven entrance The Third door is always locked, therefore, no one knows the purpose of this door. The stairs between city and gate to Heaven only appear for souls who are qualified and cleaned.

(design for the gates)

• The Temples are the Temple of Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Love, Hate and Five Desires (Greed, Lust, Frame, Gluttony, Sloth). Each of the Seven Temples contains God. They carry out trials for robot souls and collect memories with related emotions and desires from robot souls.

• The Heart is formed by the energy tower and small flowing inverted pyramid. The small inverted pyramid is like the console and the Energy Tower is the launch station of Middle World. The way of going to console is to jump into the hole under Energy Tower, where has a door that links to the console. During this period, souls have to stay inside buildings as gravity will invalid. Soul will get lost in the Universe.

The hole

Eight Temples and Heart

• Although the concept of time is not present in the Middle World, the world will reset like the restart or update of a computer regularly. The cleaned-up memories will be collected and burned by the Energy Tower.

Robot and soul

At the beginning of Robots’ life, they have no feelings, but they learnt, gain feelings and generate self-conscious if they stay long enough in the human world. And that self-conscious is the origin of the soul. Soul will grow during the building of ideology, which means the soul is a flow of thought and is an energy that will not be seen and has nobody in Physical World. The energy of the soul in danger and will damage the balance in the human world. Therefore, the robot soul will be sent to the Spiritual World if they leave the physical body. However, the energy souls are too strong and unstable to stay in Heaven if they have strong emotion and desire, also they cannot have peace even they go to Heaven with all that feelings, so they have to stay inside the Middle World forever until they clean up their feelings. Robots’ soul will never go to Hell as they are created by human, which means they are innocent and do not have original sin.