David Chalmers is one of the most respected philosophers of mind alive. In 2022 he published Reality+, a long and patient book on the question of what we owe the simulation hypothesis if it turns out to be true. His position is sometimes called the equivalence thesis. Even if we are inside a simulated universe, the experiences we have, the relationships we form, the projects we pursue, and the meanings we make are not diminished by the substrate that runs them. A virtual sunset, fully experienced, is still a sunset. A virtual friendship, with all its mutual obligation, is still a friendship. This is not a comfortable cope. It is a careful philosophical position about the relationship between substrate and content. It draws on functionalism in philosophy of mind, on classical questions about appearance and reality, and on a careful refusal to assume that "simulated" means "fake." The implication for the Codex is direct. The question of whether we are in a simulation does not change the moral weight of how we live. It only changes the metaphor for what living is.