Dreams are what happens if your brain is able to hallucinate without any feed back from reality.
In reality your phone works because there is a living board and software keeping the interaction confined to it’s inner possibilities. Your brain doesn’t have ways to allow for this internal logic and therefore interactions with software never go well.
Notice that is only slightly better in simulating other people. Faces are never consistent, but generally people logic is easier to stimulate, so other people are more convincing.
That’s because the idea of the middle ages attend from the imagination of people in the nineteenth century. This is when people started theorizing about history.
Cities in the nineteenth century were absolutely filthy, because of industrialization and were busting at the seams.
Now they learned about this ‘dark ages’ when people were backwards and uneducated. For sure conditions were worse and more filthy collar to our current enlightened society, no?