How do you think Mental Mutations actually work?
Physical mutations are much easier to understand. “Oh, I have 4 arms. Oh, I have quills like a porcupine. Oh, my ass claps so hard I generate electricity to the local lattice.” It’s pretty easy to understand how the physical mutations work.
But Mental mutations feel, essentially, like magic. But “mutation” implies that, in some way that they are interacting with the world in some way that should be able to be described with physics, chemistry, biology, etc. So how do you think they work?
I was thinking about Precognition when coming up with my question, so I’ll just talk about a fun way I Precognition works. I think it’s some sort of really protracted Déjà vu-esque reaction, where in some way you hallucinate an alternate-self’s experience. In some way, your mind has grown to attune to copies of it along branching timelines, and you can only follow one at a time.
I don’t know if my explanation is even meaningfully different from just saying “it’s magic” but I thought it might be fun to think about.