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Yes, In fact its pretty much the only thing you can really know for sure I think
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Grand Theft Auto >

Well for the purpose of this argument, I am talking about simulating real beings that are actually conscious and feel pain >

…and you are talking about a more advanced civilization, but you supposed that they would not want to simulate suffering. If it is a simulation, it’s possible that the simulators don’t consider the beings in the simulation as conscious just as we do not consider the characters in Grand Theft Auto as conscious. >

I'm pretty sure they would realize we were conscious because they would need to program it. >

Are we conscious? >

I know I am >

Do you really though?