one of your friends has not been doing well. you worry about them. one day they tell you they're going to end it all. before you can object they explain: they've heard there's a new drug on the market that eliminates your subjective experience. there will be no problem for their friends or family and their body will be fine. they say they'll take the pill that night. you hesitantly say goodbye, not knowing what the hell they're talking about, but hopeful nooses aren't involved.
the next morning you call them. they're livid. totally beside themselves. "It didn't work! Everything's exactly the same!" You are inded hard pressed to find any difference in them. but then you realize, slowly, horribly, the truth... that you have been in a half-remembered thought experiment the entire time
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take a sad quail
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Where's that webcomic involving Ralts trying to learn something from a TM?
the next morning you call them. they're livid. totally beside themselves. "It didn't work! Everything's exactly the same!" You are inded hard pressed to find any difference in them. but then you realize, slowly, horribly, the truth... that you have been in a half-remembered thought experiment the entire time