On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > On 6/6/6, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > > > > Multilocatable (Divine): A soul and body capable of manifesting in > > > more than one location at the same time, without being controllable by > > > others. > > > > > > Multilocatable (Demonic): A soul and body capable of manifesting in > > > more than one location at the same time, but controllable by others. > > > > > > To lapse into physicsesque jargon, the soul might be non-local. There > > might e.g. be a simply-connected soul overlapping the multiple bodies. > > > > There might be one body, for that matter - running in different threads > > of ... whatever the hell the Dragaeraverse is running on. Which might > > help explain the odd time phenomena associated with the Paths. > > There's got to be cooler jargon than that. You'll need to consult a theorist, then. People talk about localized gravity on a de Sitter brane in five dimensions. I was going to suggest that demons/gods can get access to a different brane and reenter ours at different points of spacetime. Then "killing" a god would mean causing the entrypoint to be occluded. But of course there's causality and the idea is surely nonsense which I can't begin to understand anyway. Another physicsesque interpretation which I might have mentioned here in the past is the idea that all e.g. electrons are identical because there's just one, moving forward and (as a positron) backwards in time. Allowed to handwave away causality, one might construct multilocatability that way. I do like the idea of Verra forking into three processes during The Great Disaster and just never recombining.