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This gets down to a "belief". We don't know if reality is a simulation or not. Myself, I don't "believe" that it is a simulation/matrix. I'm not religious but to have an opinion on this you can only take it on "faith" that reality is what we perceive. I "believe" the objects we sense like trees, Sun, starts, rocks, cars, people, houses, et cetera are actually there. We have several senses that convey to us that the objects are there. We have reasonable evidence for that, in my opinion. That is my opinion, not something I know as fact.

Maybe at the most basic level objects, atoms, molecules and other particles are made of information of a sort. We don't know what is beyond the quark, Boson, Higgs and Gluon. I take it on "faith" that the objects we perceive are there.

Our senses create what we perceive as reality by processing information. Our senses only take in information. If you want to "believe" something exists beyond that you have to make a leap and take in on "faith" that our what our senses detect is actually there. Based on what our senses tell us I choose to take that leap while at the same time keeping my mind open to new evidence and other possibilities.

The information our senses receive from objects external to our bodies does not contain touch/pain/feel, taste, color/brightness, smell, or sound. Our bodies and mind process this invisible/unperceived information and that gives us a perception of what we know as reality. That information does not contain things like color, pain and sound. Light waves do not contain color in the same way an "air pressure wave" does not contain what we perceive as sound. That's also why you can't hear a cell phone signal until it's processed by your phone to create an air pressure wave. Electrical information traveling through the air does not contain sound as a property. The air pressure wave coming out of a cell phone speaker does not contain sound as a property.

Example. when a tree falls it causes air to move. If you define sound as "a moving wave of air" then in a roundabout way you might say that sound exists. That is how the dictionary defines sound (as an "air pressure wave"). That's just semantics. I take it on "faith" that the "air pressure wave" is there that is responsible for our perception of sound. That pressure wave results in our ears and mind converting the pressure wave into sound. Sound does not exist external to the mind of a living being. Only the "air pressure wave" exists. And even that you have to take on "faith", based on our senses/Perceptions. What is beyond our senses always comes down to a "belief", "faith" and to a degree what manufactured instruments can detect.

The guy that stated "nothing exists", ummm I don't know what to say there. I guess that means he doesn't think he exists. Apparently he doesn't have "faith" that he does actually exist. It's like a belief in a gods, leprechauns, afterlife and spirits. When it gets down to it we really have know way of knowing if anything exist or not. It's left up to individual opinion and faith based belief. My beliefs are based on the available evidence and remain open to change.