Ever wondered if your reality is just a simulation?
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Ever wondered if your reality is just a simulation?
Imagine you're walking through a virtual city, seeing buildings and people that look real but feel strangely artificial.
The idea is that there's a difference between what's real and what's simulated, like the virtual city you walked through. The technical term is "simulated reality vs. human perception."
Example
You see a virtual tree that looks real, but when you touch it, you realize it's just pixels on a screen.
Remember this
Simulated reality can trick your senses, making it hard to distinguish what's truly real.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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