They said it had a massive storage capacity, and it was going to be expanded, and kept somewhere safe. What’s the difference if it feels real?
Ironically, what if that’s how our actual reality is even? It’s at least plausible, not that - as you said - it would make any difference if true.
Moreover, there are postulated by string theory to be 11 dimensions (I mean… who knows whether that is true, but we are speaking hypotheticals here regardless of instantiation of any one actual implementation), yet we only occupy 3 spatial and 1 time. The other spatial, and perhaps more interesting the other potential time, dimensions all offer numerous possibilities.
The ancient book Flatland does a pretty great job exploring that concept imho.
That is a fantastic book, and anyone who hasn’t read it should
Something, something, condoms.
Although in this case it would be sort of like putting a condom on an extremely realistic dildo that didn’t know it was a dildo.
I’m bad at metaphors.
Can’t compare if you’ve never raw-dogged the universe outside of a holodeck.
There you go, that’s the metaphor I was going for.
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