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>The conversation started with a hypothetical copy/paste superpower that could eventually manipulate virtually anything, including spacetime itself. A key rule emerged: souls exist outside spacetime and cannot be affected by the power, while bodies, brains, matter, and the universe itself exist within its reach.
>This led to a Gnostic-style idea that the universe is actually a four-dimensional tesseract prison trapping souls. If the power can manipulate spacetime, it could theoretically cut apart or delete the entire tesseract, destroying the prison while leaving the souls unharmed. What initially seems like destroying everyone could instead be freeing them, because their true selves were never part of the universe in the first place.
>The idea then became stranger: if souls retain everything they experience after escaping spacetime, reincarnation could mean remembering every previous life. If alternate timelines are also parts of the tesseract, a soul could potentially remember countless versions of reality. This led to the possibility that every living being is actually the same soul experiencing itself through different points in spacetime, with individuality being something imposed by the prison.
>That connected strongly to Neon Genesis Evangelion. AT Fields were reinterpreted as the boundaries that maintain individual existence, while the Anti-AT Field removes those boundaries. Human Instrumentality could therefore be understood as the spacetime prison's individual partitions breaking down, revealing the underlying unity of consciousness.
>The discussion eventually reached a disturbing conclusion: if ego, individuality, and separate existence are themselves products of the prison, then destroying everyone's AT Fields might not actually be destroying the true people. It could be destroying the false separation imposed on one underlying soul. The horror is that someone inside the prison would have no way to know whether preserving their individuality is preserving their true self—or preserving the mechanism of their imprisonment.
>So the idea evolved from an unlimited copy/paste power into a cosmology where the universe is a prison, individuality may be an illusion created by spacetime, every living being may be the same soul, and destroying the prison could look exactly like destroying everyone from the perspective of those still trapped inside it.