to begin, the division and containment of the parasitic alien entity into dead human bodies is BRILLIANT. i love how all the embodied aliens chant together like little lemmings. i think it's such a perfect, literal display of the alien's attempt to separate its amorphous form into individuals by taking over the bodies, but its inability to rid itself of the congenital solidarity of the collective consciousness and consequently, its failure to actually realize and obtain distinctive self-awareness in each human body.
this concept is totally reflected in the "experiments" as well, because in general, the human subjects are treated as one system. the alien forms move around pieces within the system, exchanging memories and manipulating experiences until none of the subjects are really separate entities anymore; everyone is each other, everyone has shared memories and contrived, injected pasts within the contained universe that the aliens have created. it's completely ironic (and perfectly fitting) because if they really wanted to figure out the nature of the human soul, these aliens should have been studying a person as one, honing in on a singular being rather than a muddy mass of cognizance...but because they just can't grasp that idea (because of their collective nature), they insist on using this whole-system, synthesis-focused approach that doesn't really get them anywhere. HOWEVER, because their subjects are human, their self-containment prevents them from catching on to what the aliens are doing to them. so, they continue to live and trust in their memories and believe they are enclosed, individual beings.
blind, egocentric faith.
this, my friends, is precisely the difference between the humans and the aliens. the "soul," if you will. the one notion that the aliens, despite their exhaustive efforts, could never understand because they just weren't wired to look at existence in that way. it's sad, actually. i feel for them.
these are the things i contemplate now that i'm 25.
this concept is totally reflected in the "experiments" as well, because in general, the human subjects are treated as one system. the alien forms move around pieces within the system, exchanging memories and manipulating experiences until none of the subjects are really separate entities anymore; everyone is each other, everyone has shared memories and contrived, injected pasts within the contained universe that the aliens have created. it's completely ironic (and perfectly fitting) because if they really wanted to figure out the nature of the human soul, these aliens should have been studying a person as one, honing in on a singular being rather than a muddy mass of cognizance...but because they just can't grasp that idea (because of their collective nature), they insist on using this whole-system, synthesis-focused approach that doesn't really get them anywhere. HOWEVER, because their subjects are human, their self-containment prevents them from catching on to what the aliens are doing to them. so, they continue to live and trust in their memories and believe they are enclosed, individual beings.
blind, egocentric faith.
this, my friends, is precisely the difference between the humans and the aliens. the "soul," if you will. the one notion that the aliens, despite their exhaustive efforts, could never understand because they just weren't wired to look at existence in that way. it's sad, actually. i feel for them.
these are the things i contemplate now that i'm 25.
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