"All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenize..."
- J.G. Ballard
"The media represents world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without..."
- Jean Baudrillard
"You are deluded if you think that the world around you is a physical construct separate from your own mind."
- Kevin Michel
"But what becomes of the divinity when it reveals itself in icons, when it is multiplied in simulacra? Does it remain the supreme power that is simply incarnated in images as a visible theology? Or doe..."
"it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them)."
"To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have."
"it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation."
"Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models..."
"Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play, they will say, "Because it's fun." But that invites the next question: ..."
- Michio Kaku
"A mind is a simulation that simulates itself."
- Erol Ozan