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“It’s a scientific FACT.”

You obviously did not bother to look at the link I provided, or you don’t understand the implications.

The scientific theory put forward is testable and, more specifically, falsifiable. But it has not been falsified. It illustrates that properties of nature, even physics itself, can be demonstrated to operate like emergent properties of conscious agents. This means that even inanimate objects, like rocks, follow rules that operate as if they are driven by conscious agents.

This underscores the possibility, not only of being in a virtual reality, but that all material realities are expressions of the operations of conscious agents. In other words, we might not only live in a Matrix-like world, it might be the only kind of world that ever existed materially. Matter itself may be part of a virtual reality.

Physical reality is altered by observing it. Quantum entanglement results in the “spooky action at a distance” that does not seem to be controlled by any fundamental force.

“post concussion syndrome alone shows it to be true”

The brain operates as a parallel-processing, plastic, neural network. The brain can often rewire it’s own network to compensate for an injury.

Your resistance to considering other points of view (as many people are prone to do as well) illustrates properties of the human mind—cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias—which do not support a computational model of the human brain. That is, the human tendencies to cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias illustrate that the brain is something other than a computer. Our disagreements over various things illustrate this as well. If our brains were merely computers, we should all agree and come to the same logical conclusions on pretty much everything. And any discrepancies should be easily resolved through logic and data. But this is not the case.

That being said, the mind appears to be a property of the brain. And the analogy could be of software being a property of a functioning computer, or video being a property of a functioning TV. These are not emergent qualities. They do not automatically exist. We can have a brain without consciousness. The brain may function as a computer or even as a receiver. Science is very far away from being able to reverse engineer the complexity of the human brain.

“Self aware AI:”

The link you provided supports that AI is NOT currently “truly self-aware.” Here is a quote:

“Right now, the main thing holding AI back from being truly self-aware is the fact that they simply can’t crunch as much data as the human brain, as Hal Hodson writes for New Scientist: ‘Even though cameras can capture more data about a scene than the human eye, roboticists are at a loss as to how to stitch all that information together to build a cohesive picture of the world,’ he says.”

The ability for a program to use inductive reasoning is not evidence of being self-aware. It does illustrate the intelligence of a software engineer in understanding his or her own logical thought processes and reducing them to procedures.

“they disproved the objective reality is virtual thing”

You’ve provided no evidence to support this claim.