akin to to vanishing twins, our minds emerge from a process of egoic darwinism, wherein perceptual constructs iteratively form & dissolve in the chaotic structure of the preconscious mind; the voices you hear in your head are the remnants of the other ego shards
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The human brain learns how to simulate other minds in early childhood. “You” are just one of those minds that managed to break out of its simulation a…
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sometimes the mind that wins out is significantly unlike the rest, almost an alien consciousness, adapted to a v different environmental niche

this is where changeling children come from; little autistic fae, almost inhuman in the way their eyes peer out into the world

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