“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.” ― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Gunden died quietly in their sleep, so when they awoke (as everyone does) in a world that was very similar but for certain key details, they didn’t remember dying. So they distrusted their memories of things like which cabinet the coffee beans were in or the color of the sky. “I could swear I had ten fingers, not twelve,” Gunden muttered, but kept most of it to themselves because they didn’t want to be labeled crazy or get diagnosed with some sort of psychosis or, worse, worse, dementia. Nearly everyone else had no memories of where Gunden had existed before dying, and since they had come into existence — along with their consistent memories — at the very same instant Gunden’s as whole new world, there were none to say “yes, I remember that too; you died Gunden, and you’ve been recreated in this new place.”
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“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.” ― Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Gunden died quietly in their sleep, so when they awoke (as everyone does) in a world that was very similar but for certain key details, they didn’t remember dying. So they distrusted their memories of things like which cabinet the coffee beans were in or the color of the sky. “I could swear I had ten fingers, not twelve,” Gunden muttered, but kept most of it to themselves because they didn’t want to be labeled crazy or get diagnosed with some sort of psychosis or, worse, worse, dementia. Nearly everyone else had no memories of where Gunden had existed before dying, and since they had come into existence — along with their consistent memories — at the very same instant Gunden’s as whole new world, there were none to say “yes, I remember that too; you died Gunden, and you’ve been recreated in this new place.”