reply to post by GypsK
It might be a little too soon to have gotton any huge insights.
Of course I have to relate it to a virtual reality simulation ala
The Matrix-- such a useful tool in these discussions.
Consider that literally there has to be a separate simulation for each individual because the world has to be computed and presented differently to
each. Now, in each of those, only the avatars of the individual are present. Noone is actually present in any of them.
If the world were presented identically to two or more individuals, they would not know they were not the same person so in fact they actually would
be the same one. Others would have them identically represented in their own simulations. If there were any divergence, at that very moment more than
one simulation would be needed and they would cease to be the same individual.
Those two can never meet, for if they did or even had anything happen where one didn't precisely match the other, their realities would split,
requiring separate simulations. However, they could see each other, but only as reflections or tilings of themselves looking at each other doing the
same thing they are doing-- looking at each other. They would experience those others as themselves oblivious to the fact they are not, but by that
they actually are for no distinction exists-- they are in "lock step".
But, alas, this analogy is weak in that we know that it's brains jacked into a computer interface. The problem is resolving an apparent gap between
one and many where one experiences many from separate and distinct points of view while keeping each seemingly anchored within a particular
first-person reference. I feel what you said is pointing in the correct direction to discover how it is actually wired up to perform that magic.
Edit:
Others do affect one's own reality because when an individual does something in their own, everyone else's is updated with the new information.
Really, it's probably very much like online gaming simulation connected through a network.
[edit on 10/20/2009 by EnlightenUp]
they lived in their own worlds too in my opinion but the fact remains they
were here before me (they always had that on me 
). 
