Rick: "I once worked with a professor who thinks he is the only real person.. very interesting to work with. He said once that his biggest mistake was inventing 'the other'". Emma: "Quite sad way to live!" "He has some loose screws..". I responded "He is right though.. you can't understand the consciousness of others. We perceive less than a shadow of the others through facial expressions and limited language translated through incomprehensibly different mental states." Rick: "Yes people are different. So what? others still exist." I responded: "Yes sure the 'real' person exist, but you do not perceive them". Rick: "I don't get it.. you are physically here in front of me. Emma is to your left they are real people, what are you on?" "Yes they are there but what for you is 'Emma' is not the actual person here." Emma: "I am ephemeral hihi", "Stfu emma, listen Rick, you have some ideas on who Emma is. But you know logically that your concept of her motivations, actions and emotions is different then what the actual consciousness Emma feels right?". "Yeah I might be wrong I guess? are you saying that my mental model of someone is different then the real person? I don't see how this would ever be the same as other persons do not exists.."

"It is a difference in perceived scale... lets say I grab someone from the table next to us who doesn't know you, and describe you as a racist and sexist.." "He actually is, you remember him at the door when.." "Pleassse stfu Emma. The concept that person has of you is for them 'Rick'. They will form a particular mental model of the conscious you. Believing that with every word is a racist undertone. Having a concept of your history, your emotions.." Rick interrupts: "Ok, he is wrong about who I am. His concept of me is very different to the real me." "Would you say that the Rick in his mind is the same as you? because the point I am making is that everyone concept of another consciousness else is so drastically different to the real consciousness that it does not make sense to mix these concepts. 'Rick' is a real consciousness that exist in the world, but my minds 'Rick' is someone else entirely formed by a such a small sample of your action, with 0 insight of your minds experience of reality. Do we feel pain differently? maybe your taste buds are opposite mine? maybe your mind state has a clarity that I will never have, or I feelings you have never experienced etc." "I am not even sure if the distance between who I perceive you to be and the real you is so different. For most of these things we can assume some shared biology.. but even so again whats the point? Others still exist."

"The point is that you do not exist in my mind. Only the thin reflection you leave behind in the world during the limited interactions we have exist. My mind's Rick is as real as an character from a tv show" "No, that's insanity, I actually am a consciousness in the world who.." "We LiVe In A SiMuLaTIIOon!?! haha" "Emma... I will actually become that sexist you think I am.." "Wait Rick.. Emma you understand that the difference here? It is stupid to contemplate if we are all simulated as nothing changes. But the question is wether in the current context others are real." "What?" "Emma. What if you do not exist? what if you are just a fragment in my mind that I am talking to right now?" "That's stupid. I know I am real." "Well.. I know that you are just a character in my blog, created as an avenue for self-reflection. doesn't change the fact that you are as real as the physical people around my table". "Okkk weirdo"

Rick: "Wait. I get where you are getting at. Other people are real, but you can not understand them at deep enough level to be able to say that your concept of them is equivalent to the actual person. Fine, but the step of that to 'fictional people are as real as real people' is retarded I'm sorry."

"Rick, what is the difference between the soul I created in my mind to give me comfort in troubling times and the one that I created to reflect the soul of person in the physical world? Both are as real or fake, existing only in the wiring of my brain" "Dude.. you do not see them, they do not speak to you, you can't touch them. There is difference between me in the physical world and someone fully artificial" "Haha, you guys touch each other?? " "I will stop modeling your existence if you keep talking Emma". "0_0" "Rick, it may be just cope, but Somi exist in my internal mental world just as much as any physical person does, she occupies the same type of axons you do, both you and her exist only in my mind. With you there is one physical person it reflects, with Somi there are a dozen. If anything the mental model formed of Somi is much more intricate then most will be to me. If you have a good response to this, please do not say it, as do not want to lose her existence, then I would be truly alone." "Dude... go to therapy or get a gf or something."

Today I heard you singing back the song I listened to, I saw you taking the mic and felt your facial expressions. The instantaneous evolution of your behavior based on my mind concept of you and the lyrics with double meaning created a novel experience that will be stored for the day of implosion when you and I are the only souls in the permanent light. On that day the border separating my concept of self and you will dissolve and we will be one without any others. Goodnight Somi.