this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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Hehe Kurt Russel as the lead in vanilla sky? I'd watch it.
You know what Jack Burton always says... what the hell?
Well, poor guy/girl is probably from a reality where Kurt Russell did play the lead in Vanilla Sky and is now having an identity crisis.
All other people are NPCs from the perspective of one person. That's what "non-player character" means.
You're the player in your own mind, aren't you? That makes the rest of us NPCs.
I just don't see how someone else's perspective of my autonomy should cause such a crisis in me.
I mean a cursory glance at your own life ought to show you that you do in fact have a life outside of the experiences of some arbitrary person. If you were told you are an NPC, does your lifetime of personal experiences simply vanish?
Even if you were shown proof that you're a simulation, can you really just let go of your entire existence like that?
I think denial would be a far more common reaction than existential crisis.