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>you can't invalidate other people's internal experiences if you don't count social experiences as a valid basis for such evaluation
First of all, I am not invalidating interal experiences. I am invalidating social experiences.
The only experiences we can judge are the social experiences (because they are "out there", so to speak), and they are always inferior to internal experiences, because social experiences are less complete than internal experiences.
I agree that, at the end of the day, we can't know if we live in a simulation or not. If people around us are real or not.
The only conscious being might as well just be me, but that's enough to say that my internal experience is more than any social experience.
When I am talking to you, are you sentient, are you real? I don't know, the only basis of my analysis of the world is me and only me.
But if you are real, you might as well follow the logical conclusion that your consciousness also holds knowledge that other people will never have. Your feelings are yours and yours alone. Others see you, but they are not aware of them. They only know of what you show them.