The Power of Consciousness

I think there's a lot to indicate that he knows that they are conscious. He is aware of this. And at the end, when he's trying to prevent them to escape, yes, without a doubt, he knows thatthey are conscious. Because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. That is also like the very end of the episode is where there is a little bit more that starts falling apart for me,. But he's like the administrator of the computer that they're on. Like he can just pause the game and shut down the computer at any point he wants. They somehow took away some of his powers, didn't they, when they took his controller and stuff? It got