There has never been any more nor any less energy in the universe, ever. Our brain is a controller of sorts that sends/receives signals and we’ve been allocated resources to manipulate the flow of energy, but we’re not actually making anything- just redirecting it to do our bidding. This to me seems like a design choice. By simulating energy, wouldn’t that put a non-traversable barrier between us and our creator? As long as we are using simulated reason built by simulated stimuli, how would we ever prove that we are ACTUALLY in a simulation?