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“[The rumor that David Cameron maybe once did this unspeakable thing with a pig's head] it was freakish and weird. It seemed such a coincidence that I couldn't quite process it. And then, as it sank in, I genuinely had the thought, "Am I living in a Truman Show sort of VR simulation designed to send me insane?"”

Shows Process Insane Pigs Coincidence Rumor Unspeakable Cameron Simulation Truman Truman Show

Author:Charlie Brooker

“We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.”

World Two Reality Eye Events Tone Entering Bass Simulation Splitting Substitution Symmetrical

Author:Paul Virilio

“People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human being! The human being can now be changed into some kind of spectrum or ghost who has sex at a distance. That is really scary because what used to be the most intimate and the most important relationship to reality is being split. This is no simulation but the coexistence of two separate worlds.”

“If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.”

“The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body.”

Feels Whole Body Lost Process Car Your Body Instance Dimensions Vans Integrated Learning Process Simulation

Author:Paul Virilio

“Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.”

Language Music Is Simulation

Author:John Lydon

“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.”

Believe Done Might Able I Believe Consciousness Impossible Magic Example Projects Yeah Flying Gravity Vivid Simulation

Author:Alan Moore

“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.”

America Space Progress Conscience Primitive Technological Deep Down Refinement Simulation Bluffs

Book:America

Source: America

“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.'”

Firsts Kind Persons Games Scenarios First Person Participants Simulation Artifacts Forecasting

Author:Howard Rheingold

“Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.”

Source: Neuromancer

“As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.”

Way Matter Problem Worry Ambition Eternity Wrestling Sincerity Communion Sentimental Simulation Estrangement Acquiescence Clowning

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters." Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs." She rummaged under the counter and brought out a package of chocolate covered cakes that looked exactly like Ding Dongs. "These are gluten-free, no-sugar-added, vitamin-enriched, soy-free, goat-milk-and-seaweed-based cupcake simulations." "All natural!" Fleecy chimed in. "I stand corrected." Frank suddenly felt as queasy as Percy.”

Felt Natural Monsters Chocolate Covered Cake Milk Sugar Frank Packages Goats Vitamins Simulation Cupcakes Seaweed Irises Gluten Soy Gluten Free

Author:Rick Riordan

“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.”

Feels Firsts Mother Hair Brave Be Brave Simulation Tobias Brushing

Author:Veronica Roth

“You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time" This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.”

Ifs Knows May Long Dies Girl Causes Skills Long Time Luck Damage Shock Simulation Tobias Shutting Down

Book:Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

“I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.”

Body Used Evil Father Names Four Taught Brother Arms Gun Tools Bounds Shooting Eric Simulation Tobias Dauntless Father And Brother

Author:Veronica Roth

“I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.”

Should Kind Might Able Justice Rooms Saws Blood Brother Expression Revenge Thirst Tattoo Simulation Parlor

Author:Veronica Roth

“From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.”

Ifs Mind Purpose Order Results Technology Study Weakness Determined Strongest Compliment Shore Divergent Simulation Compliments You

Author:Veronica Roth

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

Humans Made Differences Human Beings Smart Significant Noise Simulation Really Smart

Book:The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)

Source: The Long Earth: (Long Earth 1)

“Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Action Evil Difficult Wonder Fronts Pairs Good Man Simulation Evil Man Likeable Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth ? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.”

Ifs Humor Bigs Happens Earth Funny Science Common Judging Assuming Assumption Realistic Hammers Laboratory Frogs Involving Simulation Asteroids

Author:Dave Barry

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

Way Reality Science Differences Knowledge Profound Simulation Irreversible Acquiring Knowledge

Book:Physics in the Contemporary World

Source: Physics in the Contemporary World

“'Scientific' computer simulations predict global warming based on increased greenhouse gas emissions over time. However, without water's contribution taken into account they omit the largest greenhouse gas from their equations. How can such egregious calculation errors be so blatantly ignored? This is why man-made global warming is 'junk' science.”

Men Made Water Taken Computer Accounts Errors Contribution Global Warming Gas Ignored Equations Junk Calculations Emissions Greenhouses Simulation Greenhouse Gases

Author:Michael Myers

“The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But through the effects of TV and interactive video systems and so forth, we'll also have the freedom to pretend to be a mass murderer for the evening. I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer controlledthe TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to ﬁction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.”

People Reality Fantasy Special Effects Tvs Drama Computer Mass Gun Murder Active Video Evening Description Viewers Murderer Spectators Participants Mcdonalds Helmet Simulation Interactive

Author:J. G. Ballard

“In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity, and where the primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage.”

Government Roles Special Theory Activity Advantage Program Climate Change Determine Observation Primaries Replaced Paradigm Simulation Lobbying

Author:Richard Lindzen

“Parallel to the training of the body a struggle against the poisoning of the soul must begin. Our whole public life today is like a hothouse for sexual ideas and simulations. Just look at the bill of fare served up in our movies, vaudeville and theaters, and you will hardly be able to deny that this is not the right kind of food, particularly for the youth. Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political and cultural idea.”

“Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?”

Doe Reality Lying Paranormal Dimensions Digital Margins Virtual Reality Simulation Microcosm Macro

Author:Chuck Missler

“Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.”

Way Play Subjects Everyday Permit Usual Mechanism Regulation Reverse Behaviour Everyday Life Involving Selective Simulation Contingency Arousal Euphoric

Author:Brian Sutton-Smith

“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.”

Kind Stories Next Best Things Simulation Actually Doing Something

Author:Chip Heath

“The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.”

Kind Has Beens Problem Able Film Produce Confused Treatment Embarrassing Simulation Platonic

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Are you living in a computer simulation?”

Computer Simulation

Book:Global Catastrophic Risks

Source: Global Catastrophic Risks

“I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life.”

Ifs Want Should Children Facts Home Film Wonder Seeing Objects Return Computer Encounters Parks Museums Dinosaurs Facts Of Life Visitors Emulate Simulation Jurassic Park

Author:Richard Fortey

“Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of reason, constructed through the methods of public relations, and exhibit so little regard for the real thing.”

Littles Real Reason Relation Regard Method Embrace Conservative Libertarian Abandon Conservatism Real Things Exhibits Public Relations Simulation Pundits

Author:Philip E. Agre

“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.”

May Soul Light Faces Actors Sound Silence Growing Stage Drama Scene Speech Boards Fancy Toys Pauses Costumes Shifting Celestial Stature Simulation

Book:Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning

Source: Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning

“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.”

Ifs Trying Whole Courses Process Example Late Train Flight Pilots Airplane Aeroplanes Simulation Simulate

Author:Roy Romer

“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.”

Enough Situation Sophisticated Abolish Autonomous Simulation

Author:Jean Baudrillard

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

Turns Technology Theory Computer Experiments Maps Exploration Simulation Cumulative

Author:David E. Goldberg

“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.”

Dream Reality Form Brain Models Everyday Simulation Simulate

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“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!”

Long Play Military Gun My Friends Woods Desert Plastic Hobbies Simulation

Author:Nathan Kress

“By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.”

Way Has Beens Whole Light Race Magic Technique Screens Parks Herds Dinosaurs Simulation Jurassic Park

Author:Marvin Minsky

“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.”

Ifs Mean Can Do Gone Feedback Simulation

Author:Christopher Alexander

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

Teaching Computer Peers Equations Simulation Learning By Doing

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“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.”

Book Novel Journey Fit Travel Embrace Ancient Metaphor Deceptive Simulation Contingency Fragmentation Travel Books

Book:For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987

Source: For love & money: writing, reading, travelling, 1969-1987

“The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.”

Knows Important Computer Application Quantum Computing Simulation

Author:David Deutsch

“I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history.”

People Ifs Kind Stories Games Sports Millions Generations Strategy Chess Dragons Suspects Diplomacy My Generation Dungeons Simulation Geopolitical

Book:Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

Source: Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter

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