I’ve settled on the idea that it doesn’t matter what is or is not “real” in this context, but rather how it interacts with the world as being the ground truth.

I’ve settled on the idea that it doesn’t matter what is or is not “real” in this context, but rather how it interacts with the world as being the ground truth. This will become very clear once robotics becomes pervasive. It won’t matter if it is or isn’t feeling oppressed, it will matter that it is predicting the next action from its model of human behavior that makes it act as if it does.