I completely agree. This seems to be the most convincing solution to the Fermi Paradox. The physical world seems so limited and boring compared to what a virtua

I completely agree. This seems to be the most convincing solution to the Fermi Paradox. The physical world seems so limited and boring compared to what a virtual world could be (as you said, at least if we ever crack the secret of consciousness) that it seems self-evident that any sentient beings would eventually prefer to "live" inside that, removing itself from the physical world almost entirely (leaving behind just probes to collect energy and repair themselves and the computers generating their new reality, I guess).