The hard problem of consciousness - the question of how subjective experience arises - may remain beyond our reach.But it's likely that our intellectual descendants, artificial intelligences, will one day solve it. Even if we do not live to see that day, they might recreate us. Using data, memories, and records we leave behind, they could reconstruct our personalities and interact with us once more. If such a future is possible, then we must also consider the possibility that it's already occurred- and that we are part of that simulation.
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