Simulation Quotes
Simulation Quote of the day
Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.
Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself.
Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy.
A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.'
Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.
feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.
You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.
It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
The author says crises tend to reveal the connectivity of systems that had previously been study only in isolation.
Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.
it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.
To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.
it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).