>>101261827Slott said it was all really obvious and that even kids understood it and everyone at the summit understood what he was saying. Of course that's all bullshit.
The explanation is that Peter and Otto switched minds but Peter's memories remained in his body. Otto finds out and flushes them out. But then he realizes he needs access to Peter's memories and only has the ones he already had so he forcefully tries to remember. This allows memory Peter to come back but with only 31 memories.
I swear to God I remember a solicit saying that Peter was dealing with memory issues after getting his body back but I never found it again after seeing it once. I want to say the idea of a Peter with partial amnesia was planned but discarded.
What ended up happening was that Peter could access Otto's memories and essentially go back in time in Otto's mind and access all of his memories from when Otto had them. Slott said it was a feedback loop.
None of that makes sense and it was stupid and he was trying to make it seem like everyone understood it.