Sir Dave, I am afraid that you may have misunderstood me. Baudrillard doesn't really talk about literal, material reality, as in "Can I pass my hand through this lamp because it is, after all, merely an illusion? Oh no, my hand is an illusion too!" reality, but a sort of quality that we give to things we consider to be "real." Such as, "My mojito is not a real mojito because it comes in a bottle, prepackaged. It may have the flavor of lime and soda and mint and rum and sugar, it may have all those same ingredients, but because it is premixed and chemical flavor it is merely a copy of the real thing." Or Xeroxes, for that matter. Chemically, they are real, but philosophically, they have become somehow less "true" because they have been shaped out of their natural form to resemble, but not be equivalent to, something that is not truly them.

Just like, as you left in your comment on the monkey post, humans.