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Re: Simulation vs Reality

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From: Frans van Otten
Date: Tue, 02 May 1989 11:07
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In article <FN.89Apr25091425@jung.harlqn.uucp>, fn@jung.harlqn.uucp
(Mr Beeblebrox) writes:
> There has been a certain amount of discussion as to whether a simulation
> of a meal could be good enough to be in effect a meal, or thereabouts.  [..]
> The Simulated Meal Syndrome
> [..] 
> Similar to the hurricane, imagine a computer system that could simulate
> not the meal itself (pictures etc) but can generate all the right signals

Have you ever heard of a flight simulator ?  These machines work so
well that the pilot inside it really thinks he is flying a plane...

-- 
	Frans van Otten                         Don't blame me,  I'm
	Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam           just another Modula 2
	Technische en Maritieme Faculteit       compiler writer !
	fransvo@htsa.uucp
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From: fransvo@htsa.uucp (Frans van Otten)
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Subject: Re: Simulation vs Reality
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Date: 2 May 89 11:07:53 GMT
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