>>Just like in Iain M. Banks's Culture there was a consensus that when you wake up in a simulation it should say so...
A Serbian who read Banks. You never cease to amaze!
As an aside, in the Hydrogen Sonata there is an android who is convinced that real life is actually a simulation, and refuses to accept otherwise until it encounters real life at the end of a fall down a lift shaft.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
