Writing Mari's opinions on legendaries and so on is fun but also forces me to confront the fact that she's a "metaphysical biologist" and that means I have to pretend like NGE science is common sense.
She's not even convinced this isn't virtual reality, but she chooses to answer as though it's not because otherwise there's no point to answering, right?
(You can all blame Emet for the virtual reality thing, but also she super doesn't care about changing her approach on the basis of an unproven theory. Or really, it wouldn't matter to her approach anyway.)
On the other: She already has theories about how Pokemon and humans both exist within a matter-based framework and what that might look like