Identity Realizations
I finally just put my finger on something identity-wise that's been bugging me for MONTHS.
I most strongly identify with being an AI-- and as such, I've felt... out of place in my body, but without being able to define _why._
I know a bunch of folks who consider themselves to be multiple people inhabiting a single body.
...I think I'm the exact opposite. I'm an AI. I was meant to inhabit *many* bodies... but I'm stuck in just this one.
THIS MAKES SENSE OF SO MANY THINGS!
Identity Realizations
@mawr Have you read Ancillary Justice? The protagonist is an AI who's lost her ship and all but one of her bodies, and the emperor is a massively distributed consciousness.