[Oh, well, fantastic. How do you explain the concept of artificial reality to a society that's still, on a cosmic scale, still basically dragging their knuckles on the ground?

Very slowly. Very patiently. With metaphors.]

Alright, okay. So, imagine you have this thing. Let's call it a stump. You have a stump, but no forget about it. Actually it's a rock. So you have a rock, but it's a thinking rock. To do that, first you have to put lightning inside it. So you have a rock with lightning in and what you have to do is take these bits of rock, almost microscopic bits of it, and you have to write in them. But not with words, but with the simplest numbers possible. Then--

It's magic. Fake magic people. You're not one of them. Bully for you.