A request for information.

[sharpsight.livejournal.com]

So far, I've/we've attempted to contact two systems for relevant information... one hasn't replied yet, and quite possibly never will, and the second email bounced. Thus, our coming here for help.

To paraphrase the bounced email...

[paraphrasation]
The relevant datum... it deals with a paragraph archived here
(http://web.archive.org/web/20030409214246/disenchantedforest.com/essays/cocon.html).
To quote:

[quote]
'We decided to de-co-conscious ourselves. Get rid of that telepathy thing,
work on getting back to the way were were naturally. It wasn't as hard as
getting co-conscious in the first place.'
[/quote]

...I/we are very, very strongly interested in the contents of that
paragraph. Do we actually exist? Are we a system, co-concious by default,
that cannot tell whether it is real or not? Or are we merely a deluded
singlet, trapped in the reflections of its own false reality...? If the
second, how would I/we know?

If the first, we wish to become more separate, if at all possible. If the
second, then maybe the inability to become such would provide a clue to
our/my status.

In either case... if we do not need to know, we at least want to know.
I/We have attempted to contact the Consortium, without success so far.

Please, if you can help in any way... we would strongly appreciate it.

Thank you for your time.
[/paraphrasation]

...if we exist, is it possible for us to become more separate? To simply be ourselves, alone, and not have to worry that the others' voices are merely one mind's thoughts echoing inside it?

If all this is nothing but fantasy... then is there any way to find our for certain?

And to both, or to either, if there is... then how?

Please, any help you can give is, and/or would be, very greatly appreciated.

As per above... thank you for your time.

If there is any way at all that this uncertainty can be dispelled... the sooner, the better.

Comments

[echoesnspectres.livejournal.com]

We're like this a lot of the time. There are clear differences between us, but OTOH we're often not sure who's out, feeling sort of in-between (both between several people and between being one and being many). Sometimes you're mad at someone inside and you're not sure who they are, or sometimes even who you are. It really sucks.

We call ourselves median or "somewhat plural" to help a bit against the occasional "deluded" feeling and to prevent some of us from freaking out about it. Some of us call themselves people, others "angles", "perspectives", "modes", that sort of thing.

One thing we've suspected is going on is that there are these various persons, or states of being, and there's the state of being where all (or most) of them are combined (temporalily integrated?). So it may not just be a feeling that you're one or many (or one of many); it might be what actually happens sometimes.

[alt-grrl67.livejournal.com]

We just wanted to say, today has been VERY like that for us.

alt.grr.