“The fact that someone else dismisses the games I am playing to myself is of no consequence to me, personally. Relationally, however, it has consequence. And it has consequences for them, as well… particularly if they determine it should be dismissed as some form of madness.

Identity, it turns out, has many kinds of implicit and potential dimensionality.

We, in our common thought and relations, pretend something else is or ‘should be’ the case… and it is this that is nonsensical; namely, ‘singleness’ of personal identity.

Not only is it nonsensical, it is toxic, insane… and leads to all kinds of lethal ignorance that would be easily resolved… if only we would intelligently add dimensions to … (redacted).”

— an intelligence agent