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Your character mumbo jumbo aside, I agree simulation theory could be true but the same as the proposed Äther carrying the electromagnetic field, it is not possible to be proven wrong so it is ultimately useless.
I don't agree that our consciousness can choose what to do. I think it's just an illusion. In that sense your proposal that we steer our experiences by ourself through choosing with which systems to interact, in my opinion, is false. Even if you assume the brain in a vat setup, assuming quantum physics holds in the "real" universe, we just end up with one huge system government by a very complicated wave function
Most people call that God. The Buddhists and occultists have gone further to describe inner mechanisms through inner observation and interacting with "it," as it has an intelligence if you let it. The mechanism of belief plays a role in determining how it can communicate. For instance, if you know there is nothing random in the universe, God can talk through dice rolls, which is where the etymology of the word "sorcerer" comes from; a caster of lots, and "casting lots" is in the bible 47 times. Synchronicity is what Carl Jung called the overarching phenomena, which I recommend as a stepping off point to begin exploring these features of the mind/existence.
But, back to a more traditional view, some Buddhist sutras go into absurd depth of describing such things, with my life partner currently getting into studying hyperbolic geometry and topology for him to better understand what this or that monk was talking about. There's one sutra that describes the Ālaya-vijñāna in ten thousand pages. I certainly can't do that justice in a comment on the internet, which is why I choose to default to trying to make myself interesting so maybe someone will look into my mountains of work over the years.