Life in time-space

At some point, your pan dimensional self decided to string together an interesting experience by trying out life in time-space. Time-space is a game, a set of rules you agree to follow; such as limiting yourself to only a four dimensional path (like when we play a board game). If you break the basic rules (actual rules of physics) you must exit the game. Within those rules, you find an infinite freedom of choices.

In this game, you and other players near you collectively blaze a narrow path through the jungle of the pan-dimensional all. We call this path "Time". While following the path, you also have other degrees of freedom. Some of those we collectively call "Space".

One popular strategy in this game is to make your path strong and resilient like a string. When individual fibers intertwine, they become string. The strongest strings have long fibers intertwined with many others. Those fibers are mostly aligned with the length of the string.

Our string is our path; time.

To create long fibers in time;
we pay attention to lessons of the past, learning from it and building on it.
we predict the future, then act to make it comfortable, safe, exciting, noble, etc.

We intertwine these fibers by interacting with each other.

Short fibers are created by;
Breaking basic rules (you die)
Ignoring the past
Don't care about future
Don't prepare for tomorrow

Short fibers don't add much strength to a string, but they do have other characteristics;
They add fluff, fuzziness, body, lubrication,
They dust off the main string, like spores in the wind leaving seeds in other places.
They aid digestion and help scour a path clean.

The difference between the two functions are remarkably like how a brain is structured;
Long fibers are the neurons;
Short fibers are the glial cells.