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[Egan_BW]

Really random and also kinda boring, but while performing some casual random-button archive revisiting, I noticed that the following two pages from webcomics I read contain very similar phrases:
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-08-19
https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/ksbd-2-30/

"Imagine infinite stories to tell, and nobody to tell them to."

Of course, those two characters react very differently to the same problem, but both cases seem to have resulted in an awfully large magnitude of violence.

[Billy]

Seven

[Egan_BW]

Read the alt-text.

[Lunardog15]

I think I exist but how do I know my existence is real??

[Pancakes]

"I think, therefore I am"

I think "I think, therefore there is" is more likely to be true, as consciousness cannot be broken down into simpler terms, currently. The "I am" makes the assumption that we are at the top level of existence, that we cannot be part of a simulation, for instance. We could be a simulation inside a simulation inside a simulation by an infinite number.

However, based on your own thoughts and experiences, there has to be at least something in existence. Whether that is the level of existence we are currently on, or an existence an infinite number of levels of being ago. There is something.

[Lunardog15]

but how do I know that i am real

[Egan_BW]

How do you know for sure that all things that think must be?

[Pancakes]

My head hurts. Let's design an AI to think this over while I have a drink.

[Lunardog15]

but what if we all are AIs *x files theme plays*

[KittyTac]

Well, it won't make a difference if we're AIs. Who says that AIs can't be conscious?

[Pancakes]

Is this what life is? Are we just an AI made by an AI to figure out whether or not we exist? AI's have a conscience, of sorts. You need to define what consciousness is first though, which in and of itself is what we're making our AI to figure out. It's a Catch-22 of sorts.

[MrRoboto75]

people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, but if they lived it stone houses they could throw all the glass they wanted.

[Egan_BW]

Not if they walk barefoot.

[Enemy post]

**Never mind.

[MrRoboto75]

Not if they walk barefoot.

People in stone houses shouldn't walk barefoot.