Scientists confirm we're not living in a computer simulation

File photo: Chinese movie patrons wait in front of Hollywood star Keanu Reeves poster in the movie Matrix Reloaded showing at Paradise Warner Bros Cinema City in Shanghai July 18, 2003. Some people fear we humans are nothing more than pickled brains floating in a glass bowl as we're fed a false version of reality through a bundle of wires. Now a team of scientists at Oxford University has demolished the theory that we are all living in a computer simulation that's been masterminded by alien overlords. Science fiction fans and modern philosophers have long debated whether the world is actually the same as we percieve it to be. Following the popularity of 90s classic The Matrix, many have questioned whether the philosophical "Brain in a Vat" scenario may actually be our reality.