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Q&A Is discovering memories are false, a plot twist that invalidates my story so far?

So about halfway through the story I'm writing, the main characters discover that they're actually AI whose entire lives have been simulated in order to create an AI with human-level emotional skil...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Allan Smithy‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

Question plot structure twist
#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:44:48Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/32700
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar Allan Smithy‭ · 2019-12-08T07:44:48Z (about 5 years ago)
So about halfway through the story I'm writing, the main characters discover that they're actually AI whose entire lives have been simulated in order to create an AI with human-level emotional skills. The rest of the story is about how they deal with this revelation and how it compounds onto their previous emotional troubles.

My question is does this invalidate the previous events of the story and make them somehow inconsequential and do you think this is a good or bad twist overall? I'm still not sure about the placing and might make the twist earlier or later in the story.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-01-20T22:13:14Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 6