Simulation Quotes

“It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.”
― Erol Ozan

“You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind.”
― Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams

“Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing" presence "in our holographic existence.”
― Clyde Dsouza, Memories With Maya

“We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today’s third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations.Everything is a computation.”
― Rudy Rucker

“In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the poses they saw in the pictures and, studying the models, discussed styles.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“So they rolled up their sleeves and sat down to experiment -- by simulation, that is mathematically and all on paper. And the mathematical models of King Krool and the beast did such fierce battle across the equation-covered table, that the constructors' pencils kept snapping. Furious, the beast writhed and wriggled its iterated integrals beneath the King's polynomial blows, collapsed into an infinite series of indeterminate terms, then got back up by raising itself to the nth power, but the King so belabored it with differentials and partial derivatives that its Fourier coefficients all canceled out (see Riemann's Lemma), and in the ensuing confusion the constructors completely lost sight of both King and beast. So they took a break, stretched their legs, had a swig from the Leyden jug to bolster their strength, then went back to work and tried it again from the beginning, this time unleashing their entire arsenal of tensor matrices and grand canonical ensembles, attacking the problem with such fervor that the very paper began to smoke. The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F_1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore. But the King, nothing daunted, put on his Markov chain mail and all his impervious parameters, took his increment Δk to infinity and dealt the beast a truly Boolean blow, sent it reeling through an x-axis and several brackets—but the beast, prepared for this, lowered its horns and—wham!!—the pencils flew like mad through transcendental functions and double eigentransformations, and when at last the beast closed in and the King was down and out for the count, the constructors jumped up, danced a jig, laughed and sang as they tore all their papers to shreds, much to the amazement of the spies perched in the chandelier—perched in vain, for they were uninitiated into the niceties of higher mathematics and consequently had no idea why Trurl and Klapaucius were now shouting, over and over," Hurrah! Victory!!”
― Stanisław Lem, The Cyberiad

“As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it:" Elegance is not worth that price.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“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.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“These comments recall Turkle's distinction between two kinds of" transparency "in technological cultures. Modernist transparency is the notion that users can and should have access to the inner workings of a technology. It evokes the aesthetic of early relationships with cars in which one could" open the hood and see inside. "Turkle contrasts this with an opposing, post-modern meaning of the term - the notion that something is transparent if you can use it without knowing how it works. Post-modern transparency allows the user to navigate the surface of a system without ever having to access its underlying mechanics. Are young engineers more susceptible to post-modern ways of seeing simulation?”
― Yanni Alexander Loukissas, Co-Designers: Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture

“But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or does it volatilize itself in the simulacra that, alone, deploy their power and pomp of fascination - the visible machinery of icons substituted for the pure and intelligible Idea of God?”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation