Thursday, January 27, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Around Simulation II - Simulated Senses and the Un-Simulatable

It looks like we are on a trajectory collapsing in to a digital
singularity, where the only reality is hyper-reality...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utYMN4CNtOM

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From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr
[mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of Luigi
Pagliarini
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 5:12 AM
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Around Simulation II - Simulated Senses
and the Un-Simulatable


> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:35 PM, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
wrote:
>> I would like to make the assertion that relying on digital
>> simulations is creating a situation where we focus primarily on
>> processes that are theoretically simulatable or computable= whereas
>> there are many other processes that are just not simulatable and
>> there is a danger that we are developing huge blind spots (similarly
>> there are parts of the universe that are theoretically unobservable
>> eg the interior of a black hole, or the universe further away than
>> light could travel since the birth of the universe)
>>
>> the work of artists , with its emphasis on triggering subjective
>> experience.and exploitation of phenomena that may be unsimulatable
>> may open up interesting areas of research that computer scientists
>> are not focused on
>>
>> are there any examples ?


it is a strange question!
not to be self-referential but.. maybe these examples?
http://www.artificialia.com/intelligenza/
http://www.artificialia.com/CG/english.html
http://www.artificialia.com/AoD/

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