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What does Ivy know?

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pcpoet:
does Lucio even understand the archive in anything but a superficial manor.  split personalities happen in humans to protect the ego when abuse happens. the archive is an inventorying system for information passed down daughter to daughter. it is a mantel that was created all  Ivy is the set of experiences that has happened out side of the info being stored by the mantle ivy can if she chooses access this info if the archive chooses to allow it. remember when Dresden wanted some info to save his daughter and ivy knew she had it but could not access it to give to Dresden in the end as a work around she could tell him who to go to and ask to get the info. this tells me that ivy only has access to the info of the archive when the archive believes it is fulfilling its function.  the archive seeks to protect ivy but when it comes to its mission and stated purpose will sacrifice the sanity to fulfil its purpose.

Bad Alias:
Ivy couldn't give him the information. Nothing says she couldn't access it.

Kindler:
My grandfather, later in his life, was an early software developer. Everything he did was in machine code, so the guy could read binary as easily as you could read English (maybe as well as a bilingual person could read in their non-native language).

I'd argue that yes, she does know images, videos, etc. Her line when she explains what the Archive is in Death Masks is, "I know it. I understand it." So even if she doesn't have direct access to the images, she understands binary (and any other language format) so well that she can see the pictures they create.

morriswalters:
It all depends on just exactly what Jim means by anything all human knowledge.  If he means something produced by printing or writing, most images wouldn't be up for grabs for her.  And neither would the internet.  But if you don't include digital collections then the archive could never be sure that all the data she is trying to suppress was really gone.  Since printed pages can exist as image files.

Kindler:
Agreed. Consider hieroglyphic or pictograph written languages, too.
Though, what about oral histories? Some Native American tribes, for instance, don't write all (or any) of their stories. What if Shzgoriata'gl is part of those stories?

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