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What if the loop went on for billions of years... but you did not remember past iterations? You would be functionally immortal, yet not be aware of that fact. Thereby leaving would mean death, not that you would know that either.
For some reason that sounds very religious. Like Nirvana:-P.
If I didn't remember, then it would be not meaningfully different from the life I live now.
That is the perfect answer, imho. Life is not about what is, but what we make of it - being within this physical reality, it really cannot be anything else (other than theoretically).
I remember and author, possibly Pratchette, decrying the phrase "I don't believe my eyes." Believe them or not, they are how you perceive the world, and you cannot act much in contrary to what they tell you.
Ditto your ears, your senses of touch, smell, taste. Realistically, you can choose which of your senses to prioritize, but you cannot reject their input entirely.
I mean... you can, and people do all the time. To varying degrees of success and for a wide variety of reasons:-).
e.g. whenever I watch TV, I see yet I choose not to believe my eyes:-).
Vision tests likewise reveal all manner of biases, as too do cognitive ones. We would be fools to believe merely what our brains tell us, at any given moment. :-D