Curious. Would you consider a bacterial colony in a petri dish to be
"imprisoned"? Is a fish imprisoned to a body of water or a tree imprisoned to a land base? Is not all life on Earth held captive or confined to this planet much in the same way? Perhaps we are not
imprisoned, yet still
exist within The Matrix. Consider the possibility that perhaps we could not even exist otherwise.
Well yeah, I've thought about this even before I read that someone else suggested it in the past. If you really consider it, it is quite a possibility. There is nothing logical that can disprove this.
The real question is, how could we break this simulation? This could be even on just a individual basis.
Nonsense.
Show the experimental paradigm which proves such an assertion.
Not "how you feel about it."
Scientists are already working on creating artificial brain simulations. At some point there will in fact be more artificial brain simulations than there are people. Once this point is reached, it will be far more likely that you are a simulation than real.