Just a random story idea I'd never use
Thought up a story concept some time ago, but never got a story based on it. So into the forgotten blog it goes.
Then again, the tab button might not appreciate you pounding on it repeatedly. Anyway,
Perception is different for all species. Humans see animals as animals, grass as grass, boxes as boxes. What we don't realize is that there's no such thing as animals, rocks, flowers or the like. Every single thing we see as something else perceive themselves as humans. To them, we are nothing more than buildings, if their form of perception can notice us at all. Every study of them we do is based on our observations, so we never see their minds or eyes functioning the same way we think ours do. Similarly, what others see us do is not exactly what we're really doing either.
Even what we hear and feel are different compared to other species as well. When we stomp on a bug, We might just be a bird swooping in and lashing at its back to it, if it even notices we did anything to it at all from its point of view. We can't tell because we can't change what we perceive. A building could be a human at the same scale as us, but we feel something solid a certain distance away from its actual location. Just because we see something is standing there doesn't mean that being hasn't been finding itself busy as a human either.
One day, the wall between perceptions is breached and someone realizes everything else is human too.
Sure, it is likely to end up as just an overblown story on discrimination with sci-fi and philosophy elements, but I still think it would be an interesting setting. What everything universally is doesn't necessarily have to be human, but it's just easier to relate if it is. There are several approaches which seem fun to tackle. Either it becomes widely known knowledge and causes chaos since everything has to be restructured to accommodate for everything people have taken for granted, or it could be just a few humans having different ways of coping with the knowledge and disagreeing with one another. One could try forcing himself to do as he's always done, ending up looking inhumane to the others. One could bend backwards for everything to accommodate them as fellow sentient beings, eventually driving himself to starvation and overwork. And so on. A first person account from a blender's point of view once it sees with a human's point of view what humans do with it sounds pretty nice too.
Or the idea could be taken lightly and translated into "everything becomes anthropomorphic moe girls". I guess it could be interesting in its own way, but not as much fun though.
I get a few ideas with the premise every now and then, but nothing concrete enough to write a story with. Ah well, writing thoughts on it like this is close enough.
Then again, the tab button might not appreciate you pounding on it repeatedly. Anyway,
Perception is different for all species. Humans see animals as animals, grass as grass, boxes as boxes. What we don't realize is that there's no such thing as animals, rocks, flowers or the like. Every single thing we see as something else perceive themselves as humans. To them, we are nothing more than buildings, if their form of perception can notice us at all. Every study of them we do is based on our observations, so we never see their minds or eyes functioning the same way we think ours do. Similarly, what others see us do is not exactly what we're really doing either.
Even what we hear and feel are different compared to other species as well. When we stomp on a bug, We might just be a bird swooping in and lashing at its back to it, if it even notices we did anything to it at all from its point of view. We can't tell because we can't change what we perceive. A building could be a human at the same scale as us, but we feel something solid a certain distance away from its actual location. Just because we see something is standing there doesn't mean that being hasn't been finding itself busy as a human either.
One day, the wall between perceptions is breached and someone realizes everything else is human too.
Sure, it is likely to end up as just an overblown story on discrimination with sci-fi and philosophy elements, but I still think it would be an interesting setting. What everything universally is doesn't necessarily have to be human, but it's just easier to relate if it is. There are several approaches which seem fun to tackle. Either it becomes widely known knowledge and causes chaos since everything has to be restructured to accommodate for everything people have taken for granted, or it could be just a few humans having different ways of coping with the knowledge and disagreeing with one another. One could try forcing himself to do as he's always done, ending up looking inhumane to the others. One could bend backwards for everything to accommodate them as fellow sentient beings, eventually driving himself to starvation and overwork. And so on. A first person account from a blender's point of view once it sees with a human's point of view what humans do with it sounds pretty nice too.
Or the idea could be taken lightly and translated into "everything becomes anthropomorphic moe girls". I guess it could be interesting in its own way, but not as much fun though.
I get a few ideas with the premise every now and then, but nothing concrete enough to write a story with. Ah well, writing thoughts on it like this is close enough.