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What level of the am I invoking by taking a photo of a painting of a poster for a movie about replicants? Does this automatically qualify me for an honorary PhD in and ?

[Description: An artist with hair almost as big as her brain poses like a dork on the edge of an existential crisis by holding up her left hand to show off the progress she made on rendering a framed poster of in an oil painting of a man cave.]

#bladerunner #brodalisque #semiotics #philosophy #simulacrum

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Kent Pitman · @kentpitman
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@roberre @csgordon @go_shrumm @fzzlkfly @philosophy

Well, a properly designed simulation would presumably take measures to toy with our perceptions, so I would not look to perception as the way to judge this.

There are some good Star Trek episodes that explore and exploit this concept of perceiving simulation. Ship in a Bottle, for example, but there are several more.

You'd want to do some investigative work to find things other than mere perception to judge whether you were inside a simulation. Determining if there were boundaries or limits of granularity. In one Star Trek episode, the computer starts to slow down when asked unexpected questions that cause it to have to conjure simulation faster than it can keep up with.

Studies of the quantum realm or distant astrophysics can provide worthy avenues of study. Trying to figure out whether quantum randomness is truly random or not (I think it's believed to be).

The strongest evidence against "free will" that appeals to me is that there is no known situation in which free will has ever been documented to violate what physics would have done absent free will. That a willful universe would stay consistent with an unwillful one is very odd, and it's easier for me just to accept the lack of will, that we are reactive and rationalizing, not pro-active and rational.

Greg Bear, in his excellent novel Moving Mars, offers a model where (if memory serves, it's been a while) quantum randomness serves as a distributed bank, kind of like the "give a penny, take a penny" things near cash registers, so if you have to violate physics you can repair the bookkeeping locally by fudging the randomness. It's a clever concept for a book. Whether it would work in "reality" (and I use the term with some amusement), is hard to say.

Also, in the same year as The Matrix there was another film that was much more elegant and thoughtful on similar topics but got less press: The Thirteenth Floor. (imdb.com/title/tt0139809/)
With excellent performances by Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vincent D'onofrio, I might add. If you have not seen that movie, I highly recommend it. By contrast, I found it hard to take The Matrix seriously. YMMV.

Back to perception, then there's always John Carpenter's 1974 cult-classic Dark Star. :) The phenomenology scene with the (smart) bomb is a classic. Relevant excerpts here (13:17) on Vimeo: vimeo.com/86186993. Though if you're in more of a hurry you might prefer here (4:25) on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIc. The shorter one captures the critical scene but without useful context.





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Yayoi Kusama robot @ Louis Vuitton Fifth Avenue 🤖.... soooo incredibly lifelike, until you see the eyes 👀
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#robotics #robot #art #simulacra #simulacrum #YayoiKusama #nyc

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Prof Felipe Gusmao · @fgusmao
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... "our fiat is a . It begins its life as a representation of gold and for a while, it does to various degrees, but once convertibility is suspended, as it did with the dollar 50 years ago, it became a simulacrum, a copy without the . The same can be said of altcoins, who are copies of who retain a semblance of the form (using ) without the soul ()."

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jimmysong.substack.com/p/reali

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🔞Danny Redwoods · @DannyRedwoods
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Phones have not looked like this since the 90s. I have never owned a phone like this. The banana phone bit will outlast the curved plastic phone. Similacra in action

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Walking past a neighbour's fence and the wind suddenly animated a sheet on the washing line. Nearly jumped out of my skin!! I felt like Michael Hordern in Whistle And I'll Come to You!! 👻😱

#ghost #simulacrum #mrjames #ghoststory #whistleandiwillcometoyou

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Boduos · @N3m0
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1/n

@kilombavita

Einen wunderschönen guten Abend.

I had a little question about a topic which haunts me for some while about the in the religion and the perception of and the .

A simulacrum is an image of a thing or person we have in our minds with which we can emulate the future in our minds if we have an unflawed simulacrum in our heads.
For example. If I want to please my wife with a present, I can, if I know her correctly, anicipate what gift she would...

#loa #vodun #reality #simulacrum

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Secret Hippie · @ericgallagher
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I'm not much into soccer but I am into this discussion about a simulacrum of pain in soccer penalties.

Oh, any there's a comic as well.

existentialcomics.com/comic/47

#philosophy #soccer #football #simulacrum #pain #foul

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miriam heddy · @miri_iron
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People working on should work on making newborns, first. They’re simpler, in behavioral terms. And there’s a market for them.
I was just watching a video of someone giving their a diaper change. They’d pre-prepped a poopy diaper for him & wiped him with baby wipes. The baby doll was silicone (not vinyl), so he was appropriately floppy & soft, & beautifully hand painted, with hand-rooted hair. But he was so quiet & unmoving.

#robots #pretendplay #dolls #simulacrum #stem #rebornbaby #androids

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