It seems kind of weird to me that you could exist as part of an intentionally engineered, computer simulation that could be patched and restarted, while also ha

It seems kind of weird to me that you could exist as part of an intentionally engineered, computer simulation that could be patched and restarted, while also having past lives in the Buddhist sense. I mean, I guess if you figured out where qualia and continuity of consciousness came from, you could engineer past lives for ethical purposes, so you aren't really killing people if you have to restart the simulation. Alternately, if conscious observers are actually privileged over unconscious observers is some medium independent way (read: souls exist and spontaneously come into existence anywhere consciousness happens), that would just be an engineering limitation a universe developer would have to deal with.