2010-02-14, 11:42 PM
Spideyjvc Wrote:Oh, are we talking about alternate dimensions in this thread? Cool, let me join.
What if you could be copied exactly, just the way you are?
For instance, what if every recollection, thought, feelings, character trait, personality, and emotion that is etched into your mind; in other words your whole intelligence, could be perfectly extracted in its entirety. Then this extraction would be duplicated into some kind of storage medium, even reproducing all of your abilities. Then, where is the real you? Is it the one who remains in your body? Or is the duplicate character in fact you? The answer is, in any case, the real you actually exists in both. If such a thing were possible, you would split into a form of non-meiotic division. In other words, it is not the same as splitting an apple into two; rather, it's as if another apple with the exact mass, shape, and composition comes into being. When that happens, you become two. Historically, and from that point forward, the two of you are travelling down the time axis as separate entities. However, if you were to "look" at the journey you have taken, you would see that at one point the two of you were joined together. It is a split like a "Y" with two points emerging from one line, rather than "W", with two separate points of origin.
You may be unable to imagine the two of yourself splitting apart and going different ways at a particular moment which we will all use as a reference point. However, that is something that has already happened. You are always, incessantly, approaching a choice in each present moment that becomes the past the instant you visit it. Which path will you take? Path A? Or perhaps path B?
The you that is reading this may have come down path A, but in another time axis, there may be a you who is going down path B. Both you on path A and the you on path B are both still you, except for the fact that the "you" on path A doesn't know about the "you" on path B, for there is no way for either of you to know.
The "you" on path B probably isn't aware of the "you" on path A either.
The reason this is impossible is because you only have the ability to perceive in 3-dimensions. To "see" a 3-dimensional figure you take 2-dimensional information acquired from both of your eyes, and your brain analyses processes it accordingly to gain the correct depth.
Let's say that there are intelligent beings in a 2-dimensional world. Is it possible for them to see a 3-dimensional object? No, they cannot. The reason they cannot is because they only exist in two dimensions, and so can only perceive things which happen on a plane. In a 2-dimensional field of vision, only straight lines (1-dimension) can be reflected.
Now, let's say that for some reason they become 3-dimensional. Then, in their 3-dimensional range of vision, only planes (2-dimensional) can be reflected. With 3-dimensional sight, all that happens is that the plane reflected in the right eye and the plane reflected in the left eye are synthesised into one image. It would be impossible for achieve something close to the real image of Mount Fuji, for example, even with a finely-drawn backdrop.
By combining 2-dimensional information coming in at the same time from two different sources, you are really just hallucinating that you are perceiving a solid form. This is not true 3-dimensional vision. 3-dimensional vision is when you can see all six sides of a cube, at the same time.
In an "x" dimension, you can only obtain the visual information of the dimension of "x-1". This is why if you are on the top of the "Y" shape, it means that you cannot be aware of what is happening on the other tip.
Let's say that you did obtain a 3-dimensional range of vision. If you escaped the plane of 2-dimensionality, and when you looked "down" from a 3-dimensional space at the 2-dimensional plane, you would realise for the first time that you were at a particular point on the "Y". Then you would realise too that there could be another you that took a different patch on the "Y". You see, it's the same for a 3-dimensional space when you acquire 4-dimensional vision. In other words, if you escape this 3rd-dimensional space, and look "down" at it from a 4th-dimensional space, you will realise for the first time that you were on one point of the "Y". Likewise, you'd realise that there is another you who took a different branch of the "Y"; in a different history, in a different, world, in a different place, another you exists. Do you understand? You are omnipresent in the world. In the same way, I am as well. We are just branches of the "Y".
These divides selves can become one. If the self you don't know were to become inseparably bound with you; if you could stand in a place where you could see and understand all the others that were "you", then all the experiences of your other selves would become your own experiences. In the truest sense, you would become one being with with experience.
So this thread is implying that GayChinchilla22 is a Fiel from the other branch of the "Y". If Fiel is able to see all of the experiences that GayChinchilla22 has gone through, they will become one single entity.
...no more GITS for you. =x