I regard such hypotheticals as irrelevant. Whether reality is what it appears to be -- physical things and forces -- or whether it's a convincing simulation, it doesn't really change the need to deal and cope with it. It's rather like finding yourself on a raft in the middle of the ocean and debating whether it's really an incredibly large water tank.

Compter game? No.but I am sort of intrigued by Douglas Adam's idea that we are all part of an organic supercomputer fervently engaged in coming up with the solution the question about Life, the Universe and Everything to which the answer seems to be 42, for some mysterious reason.

I don’t want you tune out at the mention of Elon Musk but, I saw a podcast interview with him and he mentioned how far games have come since Atari way back when and how far they computer games could go in 1000 years.