Since your brain continuously constructs and updates a model which it happily adjusts to approximate "reality" as perceived, and has differential time lag, you can both be simulating and actualising at the same time depending which locus you talk about. Is it your edge perception devices or the composed model inside the think box?

I struggle to be as excited to be honest. It's been a conundrum for thousands of years. There's very little new being said here.

Samsara is nirvana, nirvana is samsara, no?

Sadly there is no Nobel Prize for philosophy.