virtual reality!

Are we in a machine now — our thoughts and sensations controlled by computers programmed by a class of privileged Obermenchen — and only think that we are gamboling about in a "real" universe of objects such as tables, chairs, electrons and astronomical bodies such as the moon and stars?

Is there a way to tell?

This is hardcore philosophy — here in pop format — brought crashingly down to the thing we call "Earth" by the advent of reality-simulation machines.

Fasten what you think is your seatbelt, and click here.