Why does it matter? Would you do something about it if we WERE in a Matrix? Would you “Free” us from this Matrix? Would the knowledge change anything, except maybe piss you off?
Pepperlandgirl: The answer does not matter to me other than an intellectual curiousity. But I still find the question interesting. I was just curious if others took the question seriously.
Well, let me tweak that answer. If I knew with certainty that I was “living” in a Matrix like world or something like the Truman Show where people were watching my life for entertainment, I might start doing things a little differently. I might start doing monologues in my bathroom mirror…more often that is.
But as long as the evidence for “real reality” and “simulated reality” remains in a deadlock of unknowability, I will continue to base my decisions upon the effects of reality upon me, whether those effects are simulated or not.
If the future of mankind is in the hands of Keanu Reeves, we might as well kill ourselves now.