Simulation


Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Sea of Tranquility
The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics, and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are in a Video Game
Snow Crash
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
Simulation Modeling & Analysis
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Simulacra and Simulation
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
Simulation and Its Discontents (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)
The Holographic Universe
The Penultimate Truth
TEMBBAL 09: OVERGEARED 09 (TEMBBAL : OVERGEARED Book 9)
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Sankar Sengupta
Ubik by Philip K. DickNeuromancer by William GibsonSnow Crash by Neal StephensonPermutation City by Greg EganThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Life is a Simulation
112 books — 42 voters

The Annals of the World by James UssherMaps of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles H. HapgoodSecrets of Ancient America by Carl LehrburgerThe Giza Death Star by Joseph P. FarrellWonders in the Sky by Jacques F. Vallée
Archaix Channel Recommended Books
72 books — 2 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
Complexity
161 books — 164 voters

Sol Luckman
The observer effect puts our everyday perceptions and assumptions in a blender. It dictates—if we’re to be honest with ourselves, sober in our thinking, and not reactionary in our emotions—that the world we see is NOT the ultimate reality, but merely a projection of it. From this perspective the manifest world is revealed as what Hindu mystics referred to as maya, illusion, the imaginal outpourings of minds—like children naturally playing in magical constructs that seem eminently real—simply do ...more
Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

15 million? People act like that’s a fortune. To me, it’s peanuts. Do you stop at one peanut? No — you grab a handful, then another, then the whole damn bowl. So why does everyone in this world settle for a single peanut? We possess all the knowledge of the universe — we even know we’re living in a simulation — yet most people waste their lives on small talk, small jobs, and small money. This entire society is built on the religion of one peanut. Stop eating crumbs. Take the bowl. Book. Yvonne ...more
Yvonne Padmos

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