SOMA Enemies (major spoilers)

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Here's what I can't understand about enemies 2 and 7.

On the one hand, they seem to have magical abilities that don't belong in the setting. The Jiangshi can clearly teleport, while #7 appears insubstantial (its complete darkness makes it look more like a spirit or a shadow than anything real). This suggests that they're imaginary - or viruses, if Simon's a computer.

On the other hand, Frictional has said that the events in SOMA are actually happening. Simon is not dreaming or in a digital simulation.

(In an interview, Ian Thomas said: "I'm not by any means saying it's all a dream, because it absolutely isn't all a dream. But you know, you come away from Inception, and there's this whole argument raging about, 'Was that real? Was that not real?' That's not the question we're asking, because it's real.")

Furthermore, the enemies have tangible effects. The Jiangshi can injure Simon (or even kill him, as seen in a preview) and open doors, while #7 casts a shadow. Catherine is also aware of the Jiangshi.

For enemy 2 I always took the jumping to mean that your video feed was freezing. Notice that he appears to stop moving. I always though he was moving the whole time but your peception of him is frozen so when your sensory system do come back on line he appears to have teleported closer to you.

I haven't gotten as far as to have seen #7 yet but I'm guessing its another perception glitch or the creature is transdementional where his body is partially phased in our universe. Alot of sci-fi authers wrote stories of transdemensional beings visiting earth long ago and use them to explain our cultural perception of ghosts.

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What about this thing?

I haven seen what my own character looks but I know Cathrine mentions your a walk talking diving suite with electronics taked on so I just thought this was the character your subjective consciousness inhabits.