Does it really even matter?

If it is an illusion can I get a bigger penis?

It's real in your heart that's all that matters

Well, it can’t ALL be an illusion. There has to be something behind it all creating the illusion. I do feel that the sense of self as a separate individual is an illusion, and that the world of space, time, and matter is a display of mere symbols that we create in our heads.

But we experience conscious awareness and there is something real about that IMO.

Wouldn't change anything for me!

Wouldn't matter in the least. Knowing the rules and parameters doesn't make it any less of a game.

This one keeps coming back with a vengeance.... is a kick in the nuts real????

"Nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about."

• John Lennon

doesn't that just fall into the illusion being an illusion of an illusion.....

No question, for all of us participating in existence, it’s all very real all of the time.

Everytime I think everything is an illusion I slap myself real hard. You should try it sometime.

The Matrix has you.

Me neither but the Christians would be very upset.

I would want to know what the real was. Way curious.

Nope.

Neil d Tyson has a video where the fact we may be s simulation, a game by some alien is discussed. It wouldn't matter to me. I would still-think I was real, still think my universe is real.

One's reality is truly nothing more than their collection of memories. Whether the world we live in is "real" is immaterial. I've been operating on the principle that there's a 50/50 chance that our reality is a simulation (although science and statistics say that if such simulations are possible at all, then your chances of NOT existing in a simulation would be vanishingly slim). This assumption has no impact on how I live my life, other than for intellectual curiosity. I honestly don't even understand those that argue that it would make a difference.

I do think it is an illusion to a degree anyway. Even the sense of free will is an illusion. But, as long as it conforms to our feeling that it is real, ultimately it doesn't matter that much of what we experience is an illusion.

Ahhh, the god of the matrix.

Given that the only thing I can ever truly prove is that I, myself exist, I spend more or less every waking moment acknowledging the possibility that everything else is only reliable to a reasonable certainty based on the evidence provided, but could be an illusion, dreamstate, result of misinterpretation of information, or hallucination.

I don't think it matters to me. Say the simulation theory turns out to be true, I'd be kind of impressed, really.

I think your suggestion is logically impossible.

The domain of our reality can't be self critical of itself without being viciously circular, since there is no way for us to step out of our own reality.

If it is determined that nothing is real, then you are not real, nor is your mind, nor are your thoughts. Nor is the conclusion that "nothing is real". Nor is the illusion itself.

We can never "find out" – we will never know for certain if anything is real. Hitting oneself proves nothing; that could be part of the illusion, along with everything else we think we perceive.

Agreed, I would not care. If this is the Matrix, it is no less real or apparent for all that.