What if nobody on SW is a real person?

If you haven’t met somebody IRL, how can you ever know they are real?

Update: I’m home from work sick and this is the kind of weird, science-fictiony thing I sometimes think about. How do we know what is real? What is human consciousness? I can be a philosopher at times, ha ha!

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

We can’t really know, but I guess we just have to say “is it real to us.” I sometimes wonder if I’m the only being in existence, and did I make this virtual reality so not to be alone. How about that for a storyline? It’s from Hindu, I think. The creator divides itself up into the many to experience everything, and makes itself forget who it is.