You literally need emotions in order to exist though… without fear you would starve to death or get killed by something stupid because you weren’t concerned about it. Without pleasure you wouldn’t feel a drive to do anything, you’d just sit around. I think it is probable that AI will experience these emotions too, it’s probably a fundamental part of intelligence

If simulations are possible, there will be many more simulated lifetimes than “real” lifetimes as time goes on. So the chances of this lifetime being “real” approach 0%