How do you know that any of this is real?

Your senses could be lying to you quite easily.
Time is an illusion, that much is certain.
Maybe deja vu is just us remembering that we've done all this before. Does that mean there's no free will, because it's already happened? Or maybe we came back to change things? Maybe it's a simulation of what's already happened? Someone is trying to work out how things went wrong. Maybe you're supposed to be doing that but you forgot. Maybe none of this even matters at all.
Things don't happen. Nothing feels real.

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AuRevoir · 36-40, M

If it wasn't real we'd all be millionaires living the life we wanted and none of the people important to us would disappear from our lives.

Redstar · 36-40, M

@AuRevoir Possibly. But the illusion might not be up to you.

AuRevoir · 36-40, M

@Redstar Pretty crafty illusion to universally have millions of songs and television episodes and movies to activate at the touch of our fingertips at any given moment and experience them in real time.

Redstar · 36-40, M

@AuRevoir Well, it wouldn't work if it wasn't. Just because something is complex, doesn't mean it can't be true.

Or... how do you know that there is anything happening beyond what you are currently experiencing? Imagine a video game where the world around you loads only as you walk through it, or enter a new area.

AuRevoir · 36-40, M

@Redstar Still would have to be programmed in order to load anything new.

And our world is made up of constant variables and new experiences happening to everyone.

2cool4school · 46-50, F

@Redstar I guess you’re not adept in “Occum’s razor” ...