As we’re getting pulled into The Matrix, how will you exercise reason and judgment in a world that’s undetectably unreal?

As we’re getting pulled into The Matrix, how will you exercise reason and judgment in a world that’s undetectably unreal?
Scientific American writer Anil Ananthaswamy analyzes current thinking on the odds you’re living in a vast computer simulation. (If so, should ‘base reality’ give you a 2020 do-over?)