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[ryuuzaki]

It's a little too philosophical to be useful. I've been starting with the premise that I'm real -- what I can experience. [He sounds like he's talking around a bite of something, because he is.] It's subjective, not empirical, but it's the best I can do for now.

That said, if we never leave the gravcouches, or something like them, it's a moot point. Free will would be more of an illusion than it already is; if those are the real circumstances, the things that happen to us seem to matter because we seem to experience them, and their consequences, but we're not really doing anything except existing.

That's all a little too ontological for me. On top of that... [Ah, listen, Nathan, he's swallowed whatever he was chewing!]... if we made decisions on that assumption and then turned out to be wrong, we'd be screwed. Logically, there's no point to assuming we're dreaming our lives away in a sophisticated bathtub, or not really here at all. Even if it turns out to be true.

[Cheery early-morning conversations with L.]