How do we know stuff out there, beyond our direct experience, is real?

The past few days, reading the newspapers which daily combine to form my sense of the great world beyond my yard, I've had this strange feeling, making me wonder if the foreign wars and uprisings and strife everywhere are really happening.

OK, it's not likely that there's a giant conspiracy afoot that's managed to make me believe in something that's a simulation but still, how do you ever really, truly know for sure?

After all, one quite highly regarded thinker believes that it's more likely than not we are indeed living in a simulation.

Remember Capricorn One?

You've never heard of it?

Well, there you are.

Watch it up top, then get back to me.

Nice touch, Sam Waterston among the cast, what?