imagine

Imagine yourself as being presented to a social 'throng' as a collectible action figure 'still in its packaging.'

living outside the quantum tether

Perhaps, big perhaps, consciousness, that is, the thing humans do in their self-awareness routine, can only exist if it breaks a tether with other existing consciousnesses in the universe, meaning that consciousness is a compute intensive activity for the universe in such a way that two of them cannot exist simultaneously within the same speed-of-light updatable way. In other words, if the speed of light is the distance requirement for quantum multiplicity to exist and update itself within the universe, then consciousness is a singularity, which collapses the multiplicity, and to do so it must sever the quantum tether with it's multiplicity--other consciousnesses. 

I'm a first-rate bullshit artist.