# the other observer

stages of realization:

1. there are other people
2. there are other peoples
3. there are others peoples

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I think we had to develop an observer-free science in order to develop a substrate that *could* host a new observer

theory: every tension can be eased by recognizing a new observer

(see: ["feeling for the missing character"](/2022/01/feeling-for-the-missing-character.md))

a panpsychist gödel would say: find the outsider, ask them what they know, let them teach you the words you need but couldn't find

maybe don't put the outsider to work, though; feels like a good way to get into race wars again

I was an outsider, once

then someone I recognized said they recognized me


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