I've never heard the term drink so much hatorade Brilliant !! honestly I'm not what hating anything. The tone is entirely lost in text. I am very interested in all of these ideas. But as you can imagine, after listening to various arguments over and over again in slightly different clothes, I came to (my own & independent) conclusion that the idea that our world and reality is entirely a simulated experience fits very neatly with an extremely pernicious corporate agenda of consume until the last thing is consumed. Pernicious because nobody is actually driving the bus. Anyway it's been an interesting discussion and I hope you don't take my views personally.. it's only opinion and as you say, we'll never know... unless something goes drastically wrong with the hard drives ! so until that point, we can just keep steeming on