Simulated reality

Simulated reality describes a hypothetical environment that, although experienced as real, is actually a highly detailed simulation of reality. Unlike the currently technologically achievable concept of virtual reality, which is easily distinguished from the experience of "real" reality, a simulated reality would be impossible to tell apart from "real" reality. Hyperreality describes postmodern ideas regarding the perceptions of reality which in some ways parallel this concept.

See also

• Anti-realism
• Artificial intelligence
• Brain-in-a-vat theory
• Maya (Hinduism)
• Calculating Space
• Delusion
• Digitalism
• Jean Baudrillard
• Konrad Zuse
• Neurally Controlled Animat
• Omega point
• Solipsism
• Lucid dreaming