"Actually, there's something of a questionable assumption I've been making, which is that your biology is at most a modified version of biology that got copied off of a... branch of time, I don't think Taldane has a word for it... that's very close in branching time to dath ilan.  I think dath ilan can't see your world, can't be affected by it; but I did manage to show up in this world at all, even if that's a very rare phenomenon.  So your world can see my world, be causally affected by it, even if my materializing like this very rarely happens.  And your bodies look a lot like mine, and more importantly, I can eat your food without immediately falling over dead, which implies a lot of shared hidden order between our biology, which wouldn't exist without common ancestry.  If it's possible for me and somebody from this world to have kids, which is mostly what I'd expect, that would absolutely prove the point."

"Where the point is that while some stuff may have modified you relative to where a dath ilani starts, and dath ilan may have developed and diverged some from whenever your biology was copied from our cousin or ancestral world - remind me of how old human life on Golarion is, again? - human biology on Golarion is, I would strongly guess, basically a copy of dath ilani biology.  Some of my distant ancestors or cousins got materialized here and had kids, maybe.  Or some god read the - heredity code - for one of us and materialized some entities like that."

"If all of that is true, then the reason your underlying mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs, is the same reason our baseline mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs.  I wasn't born like this, we have to give people extensive training to get them to work at all correctly, instead of them just working correctly straight out of the womb, the way we would if we were designed by sane designers instead of... well, the thing that actually made us.  A weird pseudo-nonentity that had literally no idea what the ass it was doing.  Honestly it's sort of a big topic here, though it's certainly a fundamental one so I'll probably get to it at some point.  The point is, I fully expect that by the time we're done in class here, you will be looking over your mind design and thinking that you could accidentally sneeze a better mind design than that.  I'm not quite sure what the 'given free will' thing was about, the Taldane term 'free will' doesn't translate well into Baseline so we may not have whatever you were given, but trust me, your species's mind design was horrible crap even before then.  You can tell this because I had to go through lessons similar to what you're going through now.  Though, if 'free will' makes you even worse at sanity, I probably need to have that explained to me at some point... I don't suppose it's easy to describe?"

"Actually, there's something of a questionable assumption I've been making, which is that your biology is at most a modified version of biology that got copied off of a... branch of time, I don't think Taldane has a word for it... that's very close in branching time to dath ilan.  I think dath ilan can't see your world, can't be affected by it; but I did manage to show up in this world at all, even if that's a very rare phenomenon.  So your world can see my world, be causally affected by it, even if my materializing like this very rarely happens.  And your bodies look a lot like mine, and more importantly, I can eat your food without immediately falling over dead, which implies a lot of shared hidden order between our biology, which wouldn't exist without common ancestry.  If it's possible for me and somebody from this world to have kids, which is mostly what I'd expect, that would absolutely prove the point."

"Where the point is that while some stuff may have modified you relative to where a dath ilani starts, and dath ilan may have developed and diverged some from whenever your biology was copied from our cousin or ancestral world - remind me of how old human life on Golarion is, again? - human biology on Golarion is, I would strongly guess, basically a copy of dath ilani biology.  Some of my distant ancestors or cousins got materialized here and had kids, maybe.  Or some god read the - heredity code - for one of us and materialized some entities like that."

"If all of that is true, then the reason your underlying mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs, is the same reason our baseline mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs.  I wasn't born like this, we have to give people extensive training to get them to work at all correctly, instead of them just working correctly straight out of the womb, the way we would if we were designed by sane designers instead of... well, the thing that actually made us.  A weird pseudo-nonentity that had literally no idea what the ass it was doing.  Honestly it's sort of a big topic here, though it's certainly a fundamental one so I'll probably get to it at some point.  The point is, I fully expect that by the time we're done in class here, you will be looking over your mind design and thinking that you could accidentally sneeze a better mind design than that.  I'm not quite sure what the 'given free will' thing was about, the Taldane term 'free will' doesn't translate well into Baseline so we may not have whatever you were given, but trust me, your species's mind design was horrible crap even before then.  You can tell this because I had to go through lessons similar to what you're going through now.  Though, if 'free will' makes you even worse at sanity, which sure is plausible given this total mess of a planet, I probably need to have that explained to me at some point... I don't suppose it's easy to describe?"

"Actually, there's something of a questionable assumption I've been making, which is that your biology is at most a modified version of biology that got copied off of a... branch of time, I don't think Taldane has a word for it... that's very close in branching time to dath ilan.  I think dath ilan can't see your world, can't be affected by it; but I did manage to show up in this world at all, even if that's a very rare phenomenon.  So your world can see my world, be causally affected by it, even if my materializing like this very rarely happens.  And your bodies look a lot like mine, and more importantly, I can eat your food without immediately falling over dead, which implies a lot of shared hidden order between our biology, which wouldn't exist without common ancestry.  If it's possible for me and somebody from this world to have kids, which is mostly what I'd expect, that would absolutely prove the point."

"Where the point is that while some stuff may have modified you relative to where a dath ilani starts, and dath ilan may have developed and diverged some from whenever your biology was copied from our cousin or ancestral world - remind me of how old human life on Golarion is, again? - human biology on Golarion is, I would strongly guess, basically a copy of dath ilani biology.  Some of my distant ancestors or cousins got materialized here and had kids, maybe.  Or some god read the - heredity code - for one of us and materialized some entities like that."

"If all of that is true, then the reason your underlying mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs, is the same reason our baseline mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs.  I wasn't born like this, we have to give people extensive training to get them to work at all correctly, instead of them just working correctly straight out of the womb, the way we would if we were designed by sane designers instead of... well, the thing that actually made us.  A weird pseudo-nonentity that had literally no idea what the ass it was doing.  Frankly it's sort of a big topic here, though it sure is a fundamental one so I'll probably get to it here at some point.  The point is, I fully expect that by the time we're done in class here, you will be looking over your mind design and thinking that you could accidentally sneeze a better mind design than that.  I'm not quite sure what the 'given free will' thing was about, the Taldane term 'free will' doesn't translate well into Baseline so we may not have whatever you were given, but trust me, your species's mind design was horrible crap even before then.  You can tell this because I had to go through lessons similar to what you're going through now.  Though, if 'free will' makes you even worse at sanity, which sure is plausible given this total mess of a planet, I probably need to have that explained to me at some point... I don't suppose it's easy to describe?"

"Actually, there's something of a questionable assumption I've been making, which is that your biology is at most a modified version of biology that got copied off of a... branch of time, I don't think Taldane has a word for it... that's very close in branching time to dath ilan.  I think dath ilan can't see your world, can't be affected by it; but I did manage to show up in this world at all, even if that's a very rare phenomenon.  So your world can see my world, be causally affected by it, even if my materializing like this very rarely happens.  And your bodies look a lot like mine, and more importantly, I can eat your food without immediately falling over dead, which implies a lot of shared hidden order between our biology, which wouldn't exist without common ancestry.  If it's possible for me and somebody from this world to have kids, which is mostly what I'd expect, that would absolutely prove the point."

"Where the point is that while some stuff may have modified you relative to where a dath ilani starts, and dath ilan may have developed and diverged some from whenever your biology was copied from our cousin or ancestral world - remind me of how old human life on Golarion is, again? - human biology on Golarion is, I would strongly guess, basically a copy of dath ilani biology.  Some of my distant ancestors or cousins got materialized here and had kids, maybe.  Or some god read the - heredity code - for one of us and materialized some entities like that."

"If all of that is true, then the reason your underlying mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs, is the same reason our baseline mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs.  I wasn't born like this, we have to give people extensive training to get them to work at all correctly, instead of them just working correctly straight out of the womb, the way we would if we were designed by sane designers instead of... well, the thing that actually made us.  A weird pseudo-nonentity that had literally no idea what the ass it was doing.  Frankly it's sort of a big topic here, though it sure is a fundamental one so I'll probably get to the details at some time.  The point is, I fully expect that by the time we're done in class here, you will be looking over your mind design and thinking that you could accidentally sneeze a better mind design than that.  I'm not quite sure what the 'given free will' thing was about, the Taldane term 'free will' doesn't translate well into Baseline so we may not have whatever you were given, but trust me, your species's mind design was horrible crap even before then.  You can tell this because I had to go through lessons similar to what you're going through now.  Though, if 'free will' makes you even worse at sanity, which sure is plausible given this total mess of a planet, I probably need to have that explained to me at some point... I don't suppose it's easy to describe?"

"Actually, there's something of a questionable assumption I've been making, which is that your biology is a possibly-modified version of biology that got copied off of a... branch of time, I don't think Taldane has a word for it... that's very close in branching time to dath ilan.  I think dath ilan can't see your world, can't be affected by it; but I did manage to show up in this world at all, even if that's a very rare phenomenon.  So your world can see my world, be causally affected by it, even if my materializing like this very rarely happens.  And your bodies look a lot like mine, and more importantly, I can eat your food without immediately falling over dead, which implies a lot of shared hidden order between our biology, which wouldn't exist without common ancestry.  If it's possible for me and somebody from this world to have kids, which is mostly what I'd expect, that would absolutely prove the point."

"Where the point is that while some stuff may have modified you relative to where a dath ilani starts, and dath ilan may have developed and diverged some from whenever your biology was copied from our cousin or ancestral world - remind me of how old human life on Golarion is, again? - human biology on Golarion is, I would strongly guess, basically a copy of dath ilani biology.  Some of my distant ancestors or cousins got materialized here and had kids, maybe.  Or some god read the - heredity code - for one of us and materialized some entities like that."

"If all of that is true, then the reason your underlying mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs, is the same reason our baseline mind design looks like it was slapped together by monkeys on drugs.  I wasn't born like this, we have to give people extensive training to get them to work at all correctly, instead of them just working correctly straight out of the womb, the way we would if we were designed by sane designers instead of... well, the thing that actually made us.  A weird pseudo-nonentity that had literally no idea what the ass it was doing.  Frankly it's sort of a big topic here, though it sure is a fundamental one so I'll probably get to the details at some time.  The point is, I fully expect that by the time we're done in class here, you will be looking over your mind design and thinking that you could accidentally sneeze a better mind design than that.  I'm not quite sure what the 'given free will' thing was about, the Taldane term 'free will' doesn't translate well into Baseline so we may not have whatever you were given, but trust me, your species's mind design was horrible crap even before then.  You can tell this because I had to go through lessons similar to what you're going through now.  Though, if 'free will' makes you even worse at sanity, which sure is plausible given this total mess of a planet, I probably need to have that explained to me at some point... I don't suppose it's easy to describe?"