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it's chaotic. any patterns people talk about are just the natural habit of a creature looking to apply meaning to something. the only real pattern is the chaos.

the only real trend is the events and memory erasing. it's entirely possible that none of this is real at all. maybe nobody ever goes home.

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Are we physically here?

( I mean if no one goes home.... last time she had a body it was in a not-real setting )

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that's a very good question.

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nobody has proved it back home. i'm not sure how we could, here.

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It would be an objective to consider. If there are anomalies they may be detectable.

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it would honestly be comforting if that was true.

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It may be.

( Emotion oblivious over text lets go

Also she hasn't scanned yet you know she's excellent )

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did you ever question reality back home?

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No. I didn't have a reason to consider it may be required.

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it's not an uncommon theory when i come from. it crops up in pop culture when people start talking about weird science, usually.

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You'd need to tell me more about it. I no longer have access to 2016 pop culture databanks.

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it's the idea that since we can't disprove it, our entire reality could just be a simulation. there's no real way to tell we're not all brains in jars.
or i guess mainframes in jars, maybe, haha

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If it was a simulation they would be able to alter what we remember. Or how we physically were.
How well do you believe the theory?

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they? who do you mean?
it's not really about what i believe. it's more about keeping in mind that we don't know so much more than we know, to me.

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Whomever created it.

( You say simulation someone gotta be behind it )

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right but who is that?

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( ??? y u ask her )

I don't have an answer to that.

( she cant check your tone in text omg )

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that's ok-- tbh that's kind of the point. it's more about keeping in mind what reality means to you, based on your experiences. i'm as real as i need to be.
cogito ergo sum

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I know that I'm real, and that my life was spent on the Waverider.
How real are these other lives? Are they possibilities or simply fabrications?

( she asks because she doesn't know. she has nothing to judge it against, no similar experience or other point of reference )

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is there any real difference between them?

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The experiences.
The length of my life.

( the fact that she was human, which gideon had already mentioned. her relationships, too. in some cases even who she was as a person, how she acted. so much was different )

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right but i mean quantifiable. if that event never ended, you could argue the same point from that perspective.

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If it never ended it would be the only reality that I remembered. This question or conversation wouldn't have happened.

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and these are all questions i never thought of when i went home from wonderland.

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You returned here.

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that's true. do you think that factors into it in some way?