Mysteries

Films like The Matrix and The Thirteenth Floor popularized the notion of a simulated reality, populated by simulated people who didn’t know they were living in a simulation. This might seem like clever idea, but in fact it’s not at all new. The Thirteenth Floor is based on Daniel F. Galouye’s 1964 novel, Simulacron-3, while in 1942, Robert Heinlein wrote “The Unpleasant Profession ...

Nature doesn’t ask your permission; it doesn’t care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You’re obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.    —Fyodor Dostoevsky, in The Dream of a Ridiculous Man We have art so that we shall not die of reality.    –Friedrich ...