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How much of her life was real?
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I think the answer is that it doesn't matter.
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Are they real? I certainly hope so, but what if I'm wrong? Have you ever noticed that a 5 minute dream can last you all night? What if my "life", the "world", and my "experiences" are actually just a flash of a daydream that my real self is having, while I'm waiting on the coffee to finish brewing, or something equally mundane.
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Assume that any of that is true, how would it affect your actions now?
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I was just asking how valid experiences are if noone is there to share them, or to even know about them.
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Why are experiences valid if people are there to share them? What do you mean by valid? It seems you are holding individual actions to some sort of community standard, not just in moral or ethical terms, but in terms of existence. Just as morals and ethics are stuff we made up to make us feel better, maybe continuing existence and the idea of valid experiences are just as made up.
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Do people stop existing when there's nobody else around? They stay in your mind, but more like memories of the past, and expectations of the future. You expect to see someone later today, but what if they don't show up. Did they ever really exist?
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We're all going to die someday anyway, and then the sun's going to consume the earth, and even if we get out of this system we've got entropy to worry about. Eventually everything will cease to exist and that will be it.
Ponder that for a minute. Everything will cease to exist.
Maybe the great fabric of reality will find another permutation and something else will take shape, but it absolutely will not matter what happens to us.
I know some people find such views to be depressing or sad, but I've always found it somewhat comforting.