“Well that’s all we can muster. That’s the one commonality between all the members of our species — we can only ever 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 it.”
“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