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[cargojet]

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[cargojet]

Or that we were shown it. I don't think that was insignificant at all. People have suggested Gallagher being Smiley before; what we have to decide is if there's anything Gallagher wouldn't have shown us in all that we saw, and if we're indeed dealing with just one entity playing both sides to achieve the same goal, or two entities resisting against each other, wresting for control.

Or two manifestations of the same thing.

[ryuuzaki]

We need to see more of Gallagher. When we're "allowed" to [his sarcasm is very obvious there, breaking through his more typical flat statements], and presuming that any of what we've seen is true. Different versions of some of it have gone out.

Two manifestations, that's an unsettling thought. At war against itself...? If the ship somehow assimilated Gallagher, he may not have been the only one.

[cargojet]

It would explain a lot of things. A schizophrenic time bending ship altering omnipotent being with a boner on to make our lives difficult. I mean, we're considering all the options, right? Can't rule out anything.

Or it can have assimilated all of us, and living out these lives is some sort of horrible ghost-in-the-machine thing we got going. But like I always say, I could theorize forever, and call all the options 'based in reality.' What's real, though? Whole other question.

[ryuuzaki]

It's a little too philosophical to be useful. I've been starting with the premise that I'm real -- what I can experience. [He sounds like he's talking around a bite of something, because he is.] It's subjective, not empirical, but it's the best I can do for now.

That said, if we never leave the gravcouches, or something like them, it's a moot point. Free will would be more of an illusion than it already is; if those are the real circumstances, the things that happen to us seem to matter because we seem to experience them, and their consequences, but we're not really doing anything except existing.

That's all a little too ontological for me. On top of that... [Ah, listen, Nathan, he's swallowed whatever he was chewing!]... if we made decisions on that assumption and then turned out to be wrong, we'd be screwed. Logically, there's no point to assuming we're dreaming our lives away in a sophisticated bathtub, or not really here at all. Even if it turns out to be true.

[Cheery early-morning conversations with L.]