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Computer simulation

The Silicon Mystique

by Walter Kirn,

If I’m having trouble sleeping and feel like spinning my wheels in the dark, I like to meditate on the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we’re living inside a kind of…

Withdrawing from reality

by Harper’s Staff,

Star dances

Art by A.K. Dewdney,

The people-machine

by Thomas Bruce Morgan,

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