Douglas Hofstadter — I Am A Strange Loop
Simulation
The Seventh Density of Consciousness
consciousness is densities of energy patterns. So there's an affinity of souls rapidly come to know each other's essences. The closer you are to one infinite creator the more there's only one me. Our souls really do interpenetrate and blur together. This is also called unit locality. Too messy too scary an idea for us to deal with so we insist instead that there is no genuine overlap like distant galaxies. And it's very hard to break out of such a profoundly rooted habit.
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