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This is actually a really funny, silly paper.

TL;DR: If modal realism is true, your Waifu is actually out there somewhere, does love you, and it's philosophically sound for you to love her back. But ONLY if she's immortal. Which I think ever MGE girl is with enough Demonic Energy. I could see a Lich writing this.

A summary using only shortened quotes from the article:

>Reality consists not only of our universe, but countless other universes.
>According to modal realism, every possible way that a universe could be is instantiated by one of these ‘possible worlds.’
>The reason we never meet residents of other worlds is that they’re as stuck in their worlds as we are in ours. Their worlds and ours aren't connected.
>If modal realism is true, can I have a loving relationship with someone from another possible world?
>The answer is yes.

>Given that every world is real, there are many possible girls out there pining for a boy who fits exactly my description.
>I just have to pick the girl who has the properties I’ve stipulated.
>Immortal with eternally youthful beauty
>Lovable

(Prepare for Lich-chan to start rambling)

>She sings a microphysical description of all the differences between my world and hers
>Can translate between the microphysical properties and the macrophysical ones
>Expresses intense desire for the boy fitting my description in the closest world that fits the specifications in her song
>Of all the closest worlds containing girls who fit this description, she is the one in the world that fits the Alphabetical Stipulation.

(And end rambling)

>There is a way to get love letters from your possible girlfriend.
>(And it is so fucking complex it won't fit in this summary).

>A modal realist interested in otherworldly kisses might find he wants a relationship with an impossible girl.
>(You shoggoth fucker.)

>One might wonder whether a trans-world relationship, without causal interaction, can count as love.
>Lewis’ view allows that I can have attitudes towards possible individuals, and that possible individuals can have similar attitudes towards me.
>This is not a problem for trans-world love.

>Do the arguments in this paper, if sound, give anyone a reason to accept modal realism?
>No.
>Then I thought of my possible girlfriend, and smiled at the thought of someone out there who loved me
>And desired to be loved by me.