Quotes About Simulation

I say it often, that I feel like I'm just living out the Story Mode in 'Smackdown vs. RAW' that I always used to play.

These preseason games are good practice for us, to get ready for the real thing.

Always played all of the race games on everything from the PlayStation to the Xbox and PS2, and as advanced as PCs are now, it's amazing how realistic they can make the experience.

The 'FIFA' games are getting more and more realistic. You can see it from one year to the next. Whenever I play on the console I try to be influenced by my own experience.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

if it were possible for a healthy female mind even to simulate

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!

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software.

It's very difficult to pretend you're throwing a car.

I can't take a game-winner in practice. I can't shoot free throws in practice that simulates the game. There's no crowd; there's no nothing.

Neurotics, proceed with delusions of grandeur. Napoleon Bonaparte, take the lead. Jesus Christ, bring up the rear. Simulate severe depression. Non-communicative with repressed hostility.

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.

If we all shift to the simulacrum, then the simulacrum, for all practical purposes, becomes the real.

your brain can't tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and something you actually experience.

For relaxation he could always engage Hal in a large number of semimathematical games, including checkers, chess, and polyominoes. If Hal went all out, he could win any one of them; but that would be bad for morale. So he had been programmed to win only fifty percent of the time, and his human partners pretended not to know this.

That which may have sounded like righteous teaching when it was remote and wordy, will be challenged afresh when it is obliged to simulate life itself.

The general opinion in theoretical physics had accepted the idea that the principle of continuity ("natura non facit saltus"), prevailing in the microsoptic world, is merely simulated by an averaging process in a world which in truth is discontinuous by its very nature. This simulation is such that a man generally percieves the sum of many billions of elementary processes simultaneously, so that the leveling law of large numbers completely obscures the real nature of the individual processes.

As he describes each mechanism in the brain, he shows how a modern computer could accomplish the same operation, despite the apparent differences. The brain's analog mechanisms can be simulated through digital ones because digital computation can emulate analog values to any desired degree of precision (and the precision of analog information in the brain is quite low).

These days even reality has to look artificial.

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.

There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'

So, a flop is basically tricking the referee into thinking somebody fouled you or maybe elbowed you in the face.

After dinner the babies get fussy and Min puts a mush of ice cream and Hershey's syrup in their bottles and we watch The Worst That Could Happen, a half-hour of computer simulations of tragedies that have never actually occurred but theoretically could.

You can't simulate playing basketball no matter how much working out you do.