^^^ This type of free-flowing, creative and critical thinking is part of why I come here. Great analysis. I would add that the prevalence of doubles in popular culture is likely more conditioning. The endless click bait nonsense about celebrity doppelgängers. Movies like Dave and The Prestige. The use of twins in stage magic since forever. I have seen a stage act up close that could only have been done with doubles/twins, and yet still I willingly suspended belief momentarily. The (geriatric) people I was with refused to accept it was done with doubles. “Ok. So the dude literally disappears in a cloud of smoke on stage and reappears standing on the edge of a balcony high up in the theatre circle, with a spotlight shining on him, ¡¡¡3 SECONDS LATER!!! and you think it’s due to the as-yet-never-proven-theory of teleportation??!!!”
^^^ This type of free-flowing, creative and critical thinking is part of why I come here. Great analysis. I would add that the prevalence of doubles in popular culture is likely more conditioning. The endless click bait nonsense about celebrity doppelgängers. Movies like Dave and The Prestige. The use of twins in stage magic since forever. I have seen a stage act up close that could only have been done with doubles/twins, and yet still I willingly suspended belief momentarily. The (geriatric) people I was with refused to accept it was done with doubles. “Ok. So the dude literally disappears in a cloud of smoke on stage and reappears standing on the edge of a balcony high up in the theatre circle, with a spotlight shining on him, ¡¡¡3 SECONDS LATER!!! and you think it’s due to the as-yet-never-proven-theory of teleportation??!!!”
You are on point, fren, and I salute you.
(I loved The Prestige! Great reference.)