Simulation Quotes

• Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Reality, Brain

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

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• Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Teaching, Peers, Computer

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• 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.

  Roy Romer

  Airplane, Trying, Example

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• Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Travel, Book, Journey

  Jonathan Raban (1987). “For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987”

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• 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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  America, Space, Progress

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.7, Verso

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• The most used program in computers and education is PowerPoint. What are you learning about the nature of the medium by knowing how do to a great PowerPoint presentation? Nothing. It certainly doesnt teach you how to think critically about living in a culture of simulation.

  Sherry Turkle

  Thinking, Knowing, Culture

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• My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!

  Nathan Kress

  Military, Gun, Play

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• The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drama, Light, Silence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.163

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• All laws are simulations of reality.

  John C. Lilly

  Reality, Law

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• Personally I'm hoping to spend the last years of my life plugged into a real life MMORPG simulation that makes me think and feel like I'm 18 again while my 90 year old body lies in a tube somewhere getting fed thru an IV. Be a great way to finish up a life.

  Drew Curtis

  Lying, Real, Thinking

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• There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Knowledge, Science, Reality

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947). “Physics in the Contemporary World”

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• A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one's own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion.

  Heinz Pagels

  Religious, Writing, Science

  1988 The Dreams of Reason.

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• Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Smart, Differences, Noise

  Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter (2012). “The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)”, p.72, Random House

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• 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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sophisticated, Enough, Situation

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• 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.

  Chip Heath

  Stories, Next, Kind

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• I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.

  Christopher Alexander

  Mean, Gone, Feedback

  "To be a good builder, you need a feel for what surrounds you. Christopher Alexander knows." by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

  Greg Gutfeld

  Military, People, Training

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Are you living in a computer simulation?

  Nick Bostrom

  Computer

  Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press

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• Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

  Lev Manovich

  Reality, Way, Accepting

  Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.288, MIT Press

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• We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to acclimatize us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was. It's Darwinian.

  James Cameron

  Running, Ideas, Brain

  "James Cameron Interview, Sanctum". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. February 2011.

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• For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.

  Lynn Steen

  Real, People, Intuition

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• 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.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Looks, Want, Problem

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Am I living in a simulation?

  Charlie Brooker

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.

  David E. Goldberg

  Technology, Maps, Computer

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• Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.

  Alan Moore

  Believe, Flying, Magic

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

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