Or at least, most of them remain unaware of it occasionally one of these ‘ID units’ does begin to see through it all, to suspect that their world isn’t quite what it seems-and Hall, god-like, then has to decide whether to press ‘Delete’. Douglas Hall is leader of a team developing and testing just such a simulation, a whole counterfeit reality-in-a-computer, whose electronic inhabitants have no idea that that is all they are. It’s seriously discussed at scientific conferences and been explored in a whole series of novels and films.īut while most stories begin with the view from inside the simulated ‘world’, in Simulacron-3 we see things from the outside. Although the idea that the world isn’t quite what it seems-or even an outright fabrication-is an old one, during the past half-century or so it has been given a whole new lease of life by such developments as cockpit simulators for training pilots for example, computer games and, of course, virtual reality.
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