Quotes on Simulation

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.

Are you living in a computer simulation?

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.

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.