What is the "error" with Porygon-Z?
In all his Pokedex entries it says there was an error, or that it didn’t go as planned. I know how unreliable the Pokedex is, but every entry talks about it.
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Nobody really knows, except maybe Game Freak. But, if we take a shamble down the Logical Path, we may find an answer.
What we know about the Porygon line
- They are artificiallly made2) They live in cyberspace3) In order to evolve, they require various computer parts.
The conclusion we can draw from this is that Porygon, Porygon2 and Porygon-Z are essentially computers, a highly-advanced AI system that lives inside your WiFi.O.o
Additional software was installed to make it a better Pokémon. It began acting oddly, however.
This entry, found in the Diamond/Pearl Pokédex, says that people are able to add more and more sophisticated technology to Porygon. Porygon-Z was the result of adding additional, state-of-the-art AI to Porygon2. As plainly seen in films such asWALL-EandI, Robot, the more sophisticated artificial intelligence gets, the chances increase of it defeloping a mind of it’s own. While both Porygon and Porygon2 were extremely advanced artificial intelligence units, they were still under human controll. Porygon-Z appears to have broken that pattern.
Its programming was modified to enable it to travel through alien dimensions. Seems there might have been an error…
The Pokédex entry for Porygon-Z in Pokémon Y states that Porygon-Z experienced technical difficulties. But, when you add in the deductions from the Diamond/Pearl entry, we realize that perhaps these werenoterrors. Perhaps this was when the technology in the Porygon line became so sophisticated that Porygon-Z developed a mind of it’s own? Porygon-Z did notwantto obey humans, so it didn’t. Humans, refusing to believe that something that they created was getting beyond their control, simply wrote it off as an error. They thought that it was, in the words of the great Vizzini, “inconceivable” that anything could defy them.
And so we come to the end of the Logical Path. By picking apart different Pokédex entries and using prior knowledeg of the subject, we came to a conclusion: The “error” experienced by Porygon-Z was it’s forming of it’s own thoughts, becoming almost sentient. I hope this answers your question!
Ultra Sun: Its behavior is noticeably unstable, which is apparently due to the incompetence of the engineer who updated its programming.Its appearance with respect to Porygon2, as well as its unprogrammed behaviors, suggest that it may be based on the concept of a computer virus having infected Porygon2, or maybe a reference to copyrighted software usually being patched by users to use all the features, but often causing bugs in the program.
sourceSo there’s plenty of evidence that Porygon-Z just has a bunch of regular bugs. It still might be developing its own mind like the Toucan person said. We simply don’t know.
