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Simulation and Simulacra: When the real is replaced by the artificial…

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Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation describes how a copy of a copy replaces the original, creating a distortion of reality in which we can no longer discern the difference between what is real, and what is artificial. Pure simulacra is when the original is completely replaced. Simulacra can manifest in several ways. Simulation isn’t new.

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Is Humanity Coding its Own Extinction? by E. Hughes

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Is humanity coding its own extinction? In the 1994 book, “The Physics of Reality,” Frank Tipler wrote that an AI “god” (or superintelligent being) will create a simulation in which the consciousness of every human being who has ever lived will be resurrected within a simulation and live for eternity. Tipler called it the “Omega

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Demystifying AI: Is it the future of humanity or our demise? With E. Hughes

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My event is tomorrow on August 30, 2025 at Goodman South Public Library for a discussion: Demystifying AI: Is it the future of humanity or our demise? With E. Hughes, author of Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality). I will do my best to live-stream the event if possible for online

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