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Is it really so hard to believe?
Your clothes are different, the plugs in your arms and head are gone
Your hair has changed
Your appearance now is what we call 'residual self-image'
It is the mental projection of your digital self
What is real?
How do you define real?
If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
This is the world that you know
The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century
It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the matrix