THEY FAILED TO DO IT. THEY CANNOT MAKE A GAME DSP PROOF. Millions of dollars DECADES of studying the man. And they STILL CANNOT DO IT.

learning japanese the one that shocked me most was that “skosh”, as in “just a skosh”, comes from the word sukoshi (少し) and was brought into American parlance by US soldiers stationed in Japan

Hypotheticals work by having you imagine a different situation than the one you're in. For you to be able to do this, the situation doesn't even need to be possible. But it does need to be logically coherent. If it isn't, there's no situation for you to imagine. "What if you hadn't eaten breakfast?" The situation you are supposed to imagine for this is one where there's an entity that is (a) you and (b) hasn't eaten breakfast. Now, perhaps in reality you did eat breakfast, but if you hadn't you'd still be you, so there is a coherent situation you can imagine that satisfies both (a) and (b). "What if you had eaten breakfast and also hadn't eaten breakfast?" The situation you are supposed to imagine for this is one where there's an entity that is (a) you, (b) has eaten breakfast and (c) hasn't eaten breakfast. The problem with this isn't just that it's not true. It's that it isn't even logically coherent. There is nothing you can imagine that would satisfy both (b) and (c). "What if you had been born as someone else?" Here's where we come to a question that many seem to think is coherent, but it isn't. The situation you are supposed to imagine for this is one where there's an entity that is (a) you and (b) is someone else. Like the second hypothetical, it's not just that it isn't true. It's that it isn't even logically coherent. There is nothing you can imagine that would satisfy both (a) and (b). If you imagine you, then you are not imagining someone else. If you imagine someone else, then you are not imagining you.