Black, jjw, I think you're both committing the same mistake that Dennett makes in his book on consciousness.

The point is this:
Thinking of the movie Matrix is too simplistic.

If we are in a simulated world, the computers in this world are also simulated. The computers in our artificial world could have vastly inferior capabilities to the ones in the 'real' world. In fact, the laws of the real universe might have no more relation to 'our' (simulated) universe than the laws of cartoon physics have to Newton or Einstein.

Of course, I don't believe this. But beliefs are irrelevant to logical implication.