Fun but a tough one: giving fictional characters hope

Yes, it’s always the same in the various videos, and i also think it’s AI.

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The characters feel things the same way they do everything. And no they do not only exist in words… they exist in other media including the minds of people who interact with the story in different ways.

The only distinction between dream (and other unreal states) and reality I have been able to determine is logical consistency.

The implication mostly seems to go one way. Real implies logical consistency, but logical consistency does not imply reality (maybe). Dreams and stories can be logically inconsistent, and I think real things must be logically consistent. But I think it might be possible that dreams and stories might even be inherently inconsistent. When we say a character eats or feels something, what we are really doing is painting picture of someone eating or feeling something, and thus in some sense saying they eat or feel isn’t true. According to what we usually mean by those words, nobody is actually eating or feeling anything.

And yet that is what the picture portrays and so it would be wrong to say it is not picture/story of someone eating or feeling something. That is what the character in the picture/story is doing. It is just that both the character and action is a portrayal and not actually anybody doing anything.

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