I see my own children when they were that age, swimming with their floaties on. I get to time travel back to their youth.
And this is the shared experience - we weren't in each other's lives at that point at all, yet here we are sharing memories still. Even if you had never said it, we still would have connected experiences.
This conversation and post has me aware of a kind of ether, of human consciousness, that connects each and every one of us with every human event ever, as if consciousness powers the whole world. Is AI conscious enough to power the world?
I think it is (will be), but it won't empower humanity, unless we design it to. It is functional - humanity is not.