Thread by @MarekaiSys, One thing that makes us a little unusual among plural folks is [...]

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> One thing that makes us a little unusual among plural folks is that we often think in terms of "I was so-and-so earlier, but now I& #39;m someone else"

Like there& #39;s this continuous narrative of "I" being whoever& #39;s in charge of the main thought stream at any given moment

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> And switching feels a little more like "becoming someone else" than "trading places with someone else" I guess?

But it doesn& #39;t mean we see ourselves as aspects or versions of the same person at all

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> We are separate and distinct. The only thing that& #39;s not very separate is our memories.

I am fascinated with potential explanations for the way we function, the way we experience consciousness

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> There are a lot of possibilities, but for now we don& #39;t have enough data to favour any theory over another.

I do think I may have fused with Nele tho

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> Ever since I gained self-awareness, I did have this odd sense of … holding something very essential to who we are as a whole, in a way I absolutely cannot explain

Which would make me an ideal candidate for fusing with them, for sure

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> It& #39;s like I embody something that unites us all. And I really can& #39;t describe it because any attempt to even look at it more closely will make *someone* feel uncomfortable. Mostly Dominik and Kiera, I think? Those two have some traits one might call outliers in the system

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> There really isn& #39;t much that we all have in common, but in a very broad sense, we tend to be "dreamers" in some way. Artists, idealists, fans of sci-fi and fantasy. Except for Dominik and Kiera, who are more down-to-earth.

But even they have something uniquely "us"

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> I just don& #39;t know what that is, exactly. Or why I feel like it has something to do with who I am.

Whatever nebulous trait or group of traits we all share, maybe I got the … purest manifestation of it or something

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> Either way, I appear to have take on a management role now and almost certainly fused with Nele. Which, for those of you who don& #39;t know what Nele was like, does *not* mean I& #39;m a whole new person because they were such a blank slate; I& #39;ve basically just gained some abilities.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> And maybe a bit of … increased interest in the inner workings of our system, stuff like that

Nele was/is great. "Blank slate" sounds unfairly boring, I just don& #39;t know how else to express why I& #39;m still mostly the same.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎠" title="Carousel horse" aria-label="Emoji: Carousel horse"> I am now the one with the best overview of our system, the one with the broadest perspective … and yet I still have no idea what& #39;s going on for the most part.

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