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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?

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It is an event that distinguishes between the two lives.
Or multiple, with other events.

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what if i don't actually view it that way? as coming and going, i mean.

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How do you view it?

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i'm not sure. it just seems like a bad system, especially if time really is wibbly wobbly.

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I'm not certain that there is a good system to this.

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idk seems like some parts work very well
even if they're part that we hate