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Parallel universes exist — and you can hop between them
Every consciousness is its own universe; you can listen in on others’
You are a cauliflower-shaped mass of organic tissue sitting in a dark hyperbaric chamber.
This means that you are effectively trapped in your own universe.
Luckily, through various peripheral hardware (eyes, nose, ears, tongue and skin) — you are able to build a rough representative model of the world as it is outside your hyperbaric chamber.
The representation is far from perfect but is sufficient to allow your cauliflowery self to identify and respond to events outside in a rudimentary way such that you live to experience another day.
Your brain-body interactions allow you to interact with other cauliflowers (whom you call people) via their own brain-body interactions across the same physical and temporal space; a shared plain integrating your separate universes. You eat, walk, talk, and work with these people.
Whilst you may have interactions with one another— you of course have your own journey through life— a career, a family, and hobbies which are yours.
This journey of life is uniquely yours but broadly parallel to every other cauliflower out there. Ergo, each cauliflower-human…
