Hmm. I'm not sure I agree with that. I think it is worth explaining that - you are making a novice student's mistake of equating the corpus with the animus - the ghost, the soul, whatever you would like to call it.
You feel that if an action was taken by the corpus, the body, two things are possible. Either it is only you if you remember doing it, or it has all been you. But memory and animus are not identical. The version of me without certain of my memories was different, but I would not call me an entirely different person than, say, who I was on the station. I would not call a version of you with slightly different memories a different person either. But a separate animus in possession of the same body is a different person.
The question is really what that person at the prism was. Was it the same soul with an entirely different set of memories, no overlap whatsoever? Or a different soul entirely? At some point, I believe that distinction becomes philosophical, but that is a considerably different distinction than the one I'd make between you and a different Mollymauk with about two months' divergence in terms of memory.
[ he'll listen to this, doing his best to understand and keep up, but there's a clear way he's holding himself that's showing he's clearly just ... nervous to delve into the topic at all. something that's always been easy to delineate for him suddenly complex and nuanced. ]
Far as I can tell, have been told, I'm just a-- piece of the whole.
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You feel that if an action was taken by the corpus, the body, two things are possible. Either it is only you if you remember doing it, or it has all been you. But memory and animus are not identical. The version of me without certain of my memories was different, but I would not call me an entirely different person than, say, who I was on the station. I would not call a version of you with slightly different memories a different person either. But a separate animus in possession of the same body is a different person.
The question is really what that person at the prism was. Was it the same soul with an entirely different set of memories, no overlap whatsoever? Or a different soul entirely? At some point, I believe that distinction becomes philosophical, but that is a considerably different distinction than the one I'd make between you and a different Mollymauk with about two months' divergence in terms of memory.
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Far as I can tell, have been told, I'm just a-- piece of the whole.
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And I'm two hundred pieces of soul forged together. It's messy, but...I would like to try to be a person anyway.
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[ squeezing her hand back. ]
To trying, then.
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If I do admit on some level that maybe I'm - if not the same, then a similar person to the other Mollymauk at that school, what's that mean, then?
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