Same, of course, with the protagonist's doomed daughter, and doomed marriage
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The story makes this even clearer -- the daughter doesn't die by cancer (which "feels" inevitable to us) but in a rock climbing accident
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The protagonist watches her leave for her rock climbing trip with the knowledge that she will die and can't stop it
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She can't say anything because that would break Fermat's theorem. That's not the lowest energy state. It's not what happened
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The story goes into more detail about how it works -- she experiences it as "seeing" or "remembering" the future because she's still human
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She has flashes where she thinks she fully grasps the alien POV and it's like Buddhist enlightenment, losing the sense of self entirely
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ireneista
Right I mean this worldview squares with my existing belief that all consciousnesses are only separated because of memory.
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As in, the reason that I am so sure I am "me" and not "you" is that my brain doesn't connect with any of your neurons >
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> and therefore my set of memories interacts with itself to form what appears to be a "self" >
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> but in fact the phenomenon of consciousness is likely a unitary thing that forms out of memory as a result of telepathy not being real
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The aliens are conscious in a very different way from us, may not even be conscious as we understand it
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Our consciousness is arguably a tool our brains use, linked to memory, to remember past decisions to help make future ones
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But that "conscious-decision-making-process" is a lie, it's a shorthand the brain writes down after the choice was actually made
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