“Well that’s all we can muster. That’s the one commonality between all the members of our species — we can ever just hold a single thought at a time,” the man reached underneath his glasses and plucked an eye booger, then proceeded to stare at it . “A single bloody thought, that’s all we are, at any given time, that’s all.”

“Are we really now? You realize the implications of this— erm — curious ontological paradigm, yes? For instance, if two people were to hold identical thoughts in parallel…”

“Indeed. I reckon, that for a brief moment, they’d be essentially the same person.”

 

— Bastian Espada

 

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