Wait, What You Mean I Got Reincarnated As A Heroine In Another World?-Chapter 32 - Entanglement

"I couldn't care less," I snapped. "Just explain it to me now."

"Fair enough," she said, like someone conceding a game she'd already won.

"Well, if memory is truly defined by your awareness, and consciousness is actually just an illusion—"

"Okay, stop right there. What the hell do you mean by 'consciousness as an illusion'?"

This was already bizarre enough—consciousness, the very thing that makes us us, the unshakable bedrock, structure, of what it means to be human. Take that away and you've reduced us to meat puppets.

Empty vessels.

Void souls.

"Let me ask you a simple question."

She said instead, like a teacher leading a student into making a mistake.

"Who are you, Kairi?"

Oh.

Ah, I see where this is going.

It all clicked. That cursed rhetorical bait.

And still, I fell for it once more.

"So you're suggesting that consciousness is merely the illusion of possessing identity?"

"Exactly. Think about it. Suppose your so-called consciousness gets duplicated into another vessel—different space, different time—and we compress your memories and insert them into that vessel..."

"Will that copy still be you?"

Ah yes, the ship of Theseus problem.

It is where you created new parts to replace the other parts, then still called it the same thing when it already was changed by the whole structure.

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"Well, more or less, that's precisely the way quantum entanglement works."

"And what is it?"

Okay, how to explain it to her like a 5 years old?

Alright, screw it. Let's go with the actual definition and textbook.

"It is where the particles of information are tied to each other but instead of being actually separated from each other, these information are shared and therefore affect each other."

"Hm, I see..." She murmured, appeared to ponder the explanation.

"I don't understand. Could you explain it to me as if I were a 5 years old?"

Okay, this girl. I swear to God, she is messing with me right now!

I could not be mistaken.

She definitely wanted to make fun of me by asking this question.

"Okay, Selene my love."

"Yes yes, Kairi my dear. Explain it to me."

She tilted her head, cocking slightly.

No way... my Selene cannot be this cute!

No, stop. Wake up, Kairi. You hate her. That's it.

Not only she sat down like an obedient child, she then also 'shrunk' her body...

Using Alchemistry. 

Seriously, the budget of this scene would be enormous if it were to be animated.

Not that it'll ever happen. Meh. As if.

I sighed. And yes, heavily.

Hence so I explained quantum entanglement... to a five-years-old. Literally.

"Okay so... let's imagine I have a lot of books in my head — it contains my thoughts, memories, and feelings. Now, imagine that you somehow copy those books and put them into another Kairi somewhere far away, let's just say it's an alien Kairi."

"Now, here's the most important part: When this Kairi opens a page and reads one of them, BOOM! A miracle happens. And do you know what it is? Magic, the alien Kairi's book will also flip to the same page instantly. Incredible. Even if she's on the other side of the world — or in a different universe. We never sent the page. We never called her either. But somehow, we're still connected. We're like two books talk without words."

"That's kind of like what quantum entanglement is. It's not about wires or voices. It's like my thoughts are still linked to the other me, no matter how far apart we are. And the moment I remember something here, she remembers too — instantly."

"So, no echoes or anything, Kairi my big sis?"

Okay, now you pulled that act too literally.

And for f*ck sakes, she's fully committing to the bit.

I tried to avoid looking at her directly. No, I resisted myself in doing so.

"No, no echoes. Just a quantum teleportation that ends up being entangled instantly."

"Hm, I see...."

Her tiny hands propped her chin, then sooner she transformed back to normal.

"That was a fair reasoning, I suppose."

And going back to the ideal picture I made of "Selene" I used to know.

Calculated, refined, elegant, modest, pretty. What ever.

It seemed that I have had missed an opportunity to do something 'cruel' on her.

"And what would that be, to be precise?"

"No, definitely not your business."

"Right, now let's get back to the topic. How does your Void Rifter work and what can you delve from this explanation then?"

"Hm... so, are you saying that if your memory gets transferred it will cause any other memory to behave as if they share an equal state?"

"Exactly."

"I see. I have no idea how advanced your world is, but that doesn't seem accurate."

"What do you mean?"

"At least, you got the gist using that quantum entanglement theory: It's a direct cause and effect due to a spooky action of an element from another part of the world. But what actually happens here is that..."

"It is impossible for the exact same memory to share the equal state."

Eh?

Hehhhh?!

"Hold on, why not? Aren't they the exact same thing?"

"Because, just think about the memory on itself. Have you ever considered that, since it is defined by awareness and consciousness being the illusion of the said awareness..."

"Your memory will have its information reduced by the time it arrives, as a remnant?"