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")
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