I want this thread by saying most of this is probably a drug induced delusion but i feel to some degree it should be explained first to sorta set a ground work ill explain how shin megami tensei depicts its characters specifically the demons you recruit in one of the later games they explain the deities you fight with/against only exist because of how much people believe in those deities its basically a living meme or concept now if we apply this to the real world it would seem that there does seem to exist a sort of higher layer where concepts and ideas live if you throw away common conceptions of what life is you can say that these idea are alive and seemingly autonomous take religion for example God does not exist unless the believers believe another way to try to explain this is uzumaki by junji ito where the idea of a spiral takes over and corrupts a town or a more real world example being garefeild when you look at how garfeild has evolved from a wholesome comic to somewhat of a horror icon shows how ideas themselfs grow and change on its own (i also believe garfeild is either a cognition hazard or an eldritch entity) now if you apply this concept to yourself you are more a collection of ideas battle for control sorta like an ant mound but each ant is fighting for control no matter how brief that control is the goal of what i will dub as memetic entities) i aplogize for the scattered thoughts and delusion but this is the interpretation i have gathered and my conclusion is that not only is identity fake but so are we and you
