Okay, so, quick thought experiment for a Thursday night:

If you had a machine that could perfectly simulate any past experience, down to every single sensation, memory, and emotion... but it wiped the original memory from your brain while you were in it. Would you use it to relive your happiest moment, knowing that moment would then only exist as a simulation?

Because part of me thinks it would be better, but then... is it *really* better? What's the point of a perfect copy if the original is