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Originally Posted by Fish

If people found out, they'd still have the same life of sorts with people to care about. That life and loved ones wouldn't just go away at that point.

Logic, reason, and science don't say that a discovery like this would make life empty and without value. YOU are saying that. And you still haven't really said WHY something like that would remove the value from existence.

Life is still life, whether it's hosted in a big empty physical universe or in a complex universe computer sitting on some alien's workbench. Why should either be any less valid from the experience of those in it? We can't even define what "Real" is, so how could we be disappointed if "Real" turns out to be in an alien's computer?

When people proved that the world was round and not flat, did they start rioting because they were wrong about the nature of their world? How would this be different?

Like the last :30 of this:

Personally if I found out I was a simulation... I'd do much of nothing. No aspirations, no drive, nothing. Just enough "to survive" and stay out of the way of psychos. Unless there's a way to manipulate the simulation to my benefit .

But I easily understand the mindset of those who would disregard morals and start harming people who aren't "real."