This is a piece I wrote during the beginning of a school day two days ago. I was inspired in part by an anime (yes, an anime) I saw beforehand, but I had mostly been thinking about this stuff in the back of my mind for a while previously – for years, in fact – and never put into words. I have now. It’s highly debatable, makes MANY assumptions, but if refined and investigated could one day be, possibly, a solid theory.

I should point out first that it is NOT, contrary to what is written, consciousness that I am discussing. It is something else entirely, as someone pointed out to be, for consciousness already has a very concrete definition that the contents of this essay don’t entirely fall into. Therefore, I’m clearly discussing something that has no name – and I call it, for those purposes, “consciousness.” Keep going »