Talk:Bellriver/@comment-65.94.130.206-20180718081009/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180805014640

No, remaining logged into a DIVE interface has a hard limit due to the need to replenish nano-machines. Also, the older DIVE system that Yggdrasil is designed around has limitations on being able to reproduce smells and such. Furthermore, even if they snuck a medical team into Suzuki-kun's apartment to upgrade his inferface (while it's in use) and keep him fed/cleaned/nanomachined for a period of months stretching into years, they can do nothing about the fact that he no longer sleeps, which is neurologically impossible for a human brain to sustain longer than a couple of weeks.

So, he might be halving some kind of altered consciousness going on, like a dream during a coma from his brain being fried by failed autologout during the shutdown, but it's not just a simulation being fed in through an inferface to a healthy, normal brain.