assume you weren't living on Earth, a world in which you see many other people. and you start hearing voices. and what you hear is unpredictable, it doesn't seem you are hearing your own thoughts aloud. you would likely assume you were indeed talking to other people. you just can't see them.
however, on Earth, hearing voices is referred to as hallucination, that is, they are unreal. a diagnosis which has a solipsistic bias to it, that the voices are all me. but what if the voices are real but the people you see and interact with aren't, that they are merely simulated people? also a solipsistic take on reality. this matter of solipsism and its various shades needs to to be dealt with. on the one hand we dismiss what we hear as other people and on the other we dismiss what we see as other people.
so what is me and what is another person? consider in a reality where physical motion is not real and the stuff of reality is fixed in space, we can divide space up into personal zones, what i call personal bubble spaces, each centred around the person's head. what is far away from me is not me therefore and must be other people.
extreme schizophrenia is a condition that breaks the rules of the universe. strange things happen. time lapses. teleportation. hearing voices. objects appearing. objects disappearing. images of text suddenly changing while you view them. what it does is raise scepticism about the world. that's probably a good thing.
CLEARCHARGE
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