Did Jesus function through fear when he walked the Earth?
A third possibility may exist.
Many cultures throughout time and geography have become convinced through rigourous testing that the simulation itself keeps logs of all that transpires within it.
Might it be posible to select and train anons capable of reading those logs?
Is it so crazy to think that with publically-available instruments scientists indeed cannot distinguish between two molecules with identical potential energy surfaces, because that is precisely all the information that they can measure, but that with occulted scientific instruments the two molecules might indeed be distinguished.
Perhaps molecules encode information other than their potential energy surface.
Perhaps the human mind, especially under strong emotion, can modulate those encodings.
By what basis do you claim that the chemical structure of a molecule is the only information-bearing aspect of that molecule?