No, you're fighting ghosts. I am neither erecting strawmen, nor did I respond to what you wrote, because neither was my intention. To be honest, I'm starting to get the feeling that we're running (mostly) tangential arguments.
There is one thing I'll clarify though. It DOES make a difference whether you're in the matrix or not. People who try to dodge bullets or fly through force of will on Earth tend to generally end up dead or in nuthouses. People who think that physical laws don't exist and that they can live without eating kill themselves. People who spend their lives looking for "agents" are usually dubbed crazy. The only way it can totally not matter if we're in the matrix or not, is if there's NO overlap between the two. Which I never said, of course.
Furthermore, the Matrix is just an analogy. What I was trying to point out is that people believe things which are practical. So it's not practical to run around looking for "agents" because real life does not require any such thing. But there are other assumptions you make too. For example, if you have any money in the bank, you assume that armageddon will not happen tomorrow. Hell, if you've got a savings account somewhere, you're assuming that you're not going to get hit by a bus today on your way home or die in your sleep. If you're married, you assume your wife is faithful to you and isn't just marrying you for your money (well, I hope for your sake we can assume that).
My point is that none of these things can be "proven." There may be some evidence for some of them to some degree (my wife has never given me reason to believe she is unfaithful, so most likely she isn't), but sometimes there's really no way to know. Let me put it this way: Do you want President Obama to start investing billions of your tax dollars on a contingency plan labeled "In case of alien attack?"
In fact, the refusal to believe anything except that which is concrete is often manifested as paranoia, and is considered a mental disorder.
Lots of people claim they don't make any faith-based assumptions about the universe. Clearly, however, practicality does and should trump the possibilities that I mentioned. People SHOULD assume lots of things in order so that they can live comfortably. But that doesn't change the fact that we all (humans in general) regularly discard ideas which are inconvenient. By discard, I don't even mean logically discard. People ASSUME, without thinking lots of things. My point is, there's a difference between what we SAY we believe and what we actually believe. Even if people SAY they accept the possibility of, say, an alien attack, nobody really goes through life expecting one.
You know already. Why ask?