This evening, while looking outside at a lush tree, every leaf a small, unique and discrete piece of the whole, moving independently in the softly blowing breeze….I realized that the level of sophistication to do this in simulation with modern technology could only produce effects that are alluringly real, but ultimately false to the senses. However, one must remember that there are some popular and contemporary theories that postulate that we may well live in a simulation created by some highly advanced power that has artificially woven a reality for us that encompasses everything that we know to be real and the very measure by which we judge artifice.
