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Would you believe it? I made a friend.
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I know, I know. "Melvin, you have lots of friends," but it's been
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really tough to meet new people since the whole body going away
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thing. At first I was trapped in a sort of reverse solipsism,
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"what if I'm not real?" Then I was going through the 13 stages of
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grief and hunger. (I'll be honest, I think I'm still around step
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eight or nine.) There was also that period of crying for help that
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you may recall from a while back. OH, and the counting phase…
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Regardless, I'm happy to report that I'm not the only disembodied
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floating presence in the universe. There's at least three others
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I've encountered and one of them doesn't want to eat me. Things
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are looking up!
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My new friend has no name, so I've just decided to call him Bruce.
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Of course Bruce has no gender either since he's got the whole
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no-body situation going on. I figure since he's going to be
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misgendered no matter what pronouns I use I may as well pick
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something cool. Bruce is cool. Bruce is like water.
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Did you get the reference? I was quoting Bruce Lee. Or making
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a reference to Bruce Lee at least. I don't think he talked about
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himself in the third person. Hrm, should I start talking about
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myself in the third person? That seems like the sort of thing
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Melvin would do once he had no body. Nah, now I sound pompous.
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Bruce was like water when I met him in that he sort of flowed and
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oozed all around my presence. I think he even oozed through it.
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Oozing is a pretty watery thing, right? Maybe gushing is a better
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word, but it wasn't fast to my sensation of time. Arguably, that's
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not much to judge by. Part of me still feels like I have a toe in
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time but just barely. It's probably this QEC link now that I think
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about it. The other side of the link is somewhere in time, so this
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side has to be, right? Or at least that's how I think it works.
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Hey, there's smart goofuses out there! I saw one guy--Tom,
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I think--who made his own QEC. Maybe he can chime in here. Hey
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Tom, how does this work, anyway? If I have no body how am
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I talking? Am I talking? Am I just wiggling qbits with my
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non-brain? Hmmm.
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Back to Bruce. He doesn't talk much. Or at all. Really beyond the
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oozing he's pretty quiet. I think he was checking me out at first,
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feeling me up on all my sides. Side-note, I seem to have a lot of
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sides now. That's pretty tricky geometry for a lack of
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physicality, but I have some sensation of them. I wonder if those
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non-dimensional edges have some sort of being in their own right.
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There's information there, via sensation. That needs to follow
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some sort of law of conservation of me, I think. Or maybe it's the
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other way around. I am, therefore I think. Circular logic is still
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logic!
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Bruce is a nice fella. I've been yammering away at him like this
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for eons and he just listens. He hasn't interrupted me once or
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tried to top my stories with cooler ones of his own. That's a real
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pal for ya. He probably senses I'm having a difficult time
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adjusting and he's being extra accomodating. I should get him
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a gift. Maybe a vase or an ash tray or something? Flowers seems
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a bit too personal. We've only just met. Let me know if you have
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any suggestions.
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