Connections are infinitely flexible if they aren't constrained by location and time. So what it means to "see someone again" is a dynamic and instantaneous exchange of attention; if this exchange is used to create a familiar picture of a person in material form, that's more a function of one's own habit than a function of what another being looks like, I would expect. It isn't a matter of getting stuck in some form ort other because of anothers' expectations or desires.

We are very habituated to being located by meat tokens, since that's how we pretend to present ourselves to each other. But the connections between live beings are much more than that. How much more depends on how socked in the individual is into the mechanics and electronics of meatspace, which varied wildly from person to person.

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