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<blockquote data-quote="niklinna" data-source="post: 8621210" data-attributes="member: 71235">Why not? Might they not be able to perform experiments to determine what their underlying rules of reality—the games rules, as opposed to the world rules (whatever that means)—are? We certainly do that in &quot;real life&quot;. There's even a theory that we are just characters in a computer game! In fact, they might even be able to perform experiments to determine when the rules have changed (form AD&amp;D to BW, or whatever). Check out Secret of the Sixth Magic for something in the vague realm of a fantasy world where the rules can change, and someone figures out how to make it happen.Ah, but wait, the inhabitants of that world don't even exist unless we are playing them. This is heading into some thorny territory so I'm gonna just stop right there. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> Along these lines, have you read John Scalzi's Redshirts? I thought the story itself was just okay, but the codas really brought it home.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="niklinna, post: 8621210, member: 71235"] Why not? Might they not be able to perform experiments to determine what their underlying rules of reality—the games rules, as opposed to the world rules (whatever that means)—are? We certainly do that in "real life". There's even a theory that we are just characters in a computer game! In fact, they might even be able to perform experiments to determine when the rules have changed (form AD&D to BW, or whatever). Check out [i]Secret of the Sixth Magic[/i] for something in the vague realm of a fantasy world where the rules can change, and someone figures out how to make it happen. Ah, but wait, the inhabitants of that world don't even exist unless [i]we are playing them[/i]. This is heading into some thorny territory so I'm gonna just stop right there. :-) Along these lines, have you read John Scalzi's [i]Redshirts[/i]? I thought the story itself was just okay, but the codas really brought it home. [/QUOTE]

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