[Where is this person, so that Mulder might propose to them in marriage? He nods, accepting this pretty readily as a valid theory. When it comes to Luceti, anything literally is possible.]

Nice theory. It's fully possible, and the effects that we experience could just be the result of experimental programs that they run. Speaking from experience, being trapped in a virtual world by an AI feels real enough, no matter how outlandish the events happening inside it.

[Oh, karate Scully, he will never forget you.]

It also poses its own dangers, and one has to wonder what purpose they'd have in using us to test such simulations.