Belief Quote by Taryn Simon

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as…

— Heinz Pagels

I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality…

— Paul Virilio

“Simulations are your brain’s guesses of what’s happening in the world. In every waking moment, you’re faced with ambiguous, noisy information from your eyes,…

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

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…

— Anonymous

Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

— Lev Manovich

The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.

— Fred Ritchin

The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published,…

— Francis Bacon

Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to…

— Winston Churchill

Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated…

— Andy Grundberg

The simulator is the stage in-between television and virtual reality, a moment, a phase. The simulator is a moment that leads to cyberspace, that…

— Paul Virilio