Created with TopBraid Composer Simulation is a process that animates a simulacrum. This is the primordial process that instantiates manifest existence. It is in a sense the "Mind of God". Simulation is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. It is not imitation, nor duplication. It is substituting the signs of the real for the real. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/postmodernism/terms/simulacrum.html A manifest system within the virtual universe. The virtual process (inner) modifies the state of a virtual entity (outer) and the state of the virtual entities condition the virtual process. A stream of present moment experience for an individual awareness. An organised functional whole composed of self-reflexive model driven processes. The process (inner) modifies the model (outer) and the model conditions the process. A simulator manifests numerous virtual processes. From a virtual perspective these are individual streams of manifest awareness. These are Atman or individual souls - the pure witness. A virtual reality generator system. The simulation process (inner) modifies the simulacrum (outer) and the simulacrum conditions the simulation process. The root of the hierarchy is a simulator that generates virtual systems, but some of these can also be simulators. So there can be virtual universes within universes. A discernible feature within the content of awareness of a virtual process. This is a subjective view of the simulacrum as discerned by an individual stream of awareness. This is the form of manifest appearance within an experiential stream. A tangibly manifest physico-cognitive system. An experiential process (inner) apprehends the objects of experience (outer), whilst the objects of experience condition the experiential process. This system is physical because it tangibly apprehends other systems and other systems tangibly apprehend it. It is cognitive because it is a present moment awareness; an apprehending of a world composed of objects of experience. A self-reflexive flow of information that conditions the flow of information. The computation (inner) discerns and transforms the information (outer), whilst the information conditions the computation. Also known as qualia or experientials. This describes the tangible present experience of being sensorially aware of some quality of experience. For example, feeling heat, seeing greeness, tasting spicyness, etc... A simulacrum is animated by a simulator. This is the data model, the primordial 'objective' level of manifest existence, which has not been interpreted through any virtual process; only the simulator experiences the simulacrum directly. This is the "God's eye view" of the virtual universe. Simulacrum: Something that replaces reality with its representation, which is not a territory, a referential being, or a substance. The simulacrum's function lies in the derealization of the whole surrounding world of everyday reality. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/theory/postmodernism/terms/simulacrum.html Discernible difference where the subject who discerns is computation. Content of primordial awareness. A model is a structured pattern of information that conditions a process. The model encodes information that represents some virtual system. System Coherent flow and transformation of information in the form of a stream of primordial awareness. Both apprehending information and conditioned by information. A discernible feature within the information content of an experiential process. Nondual Reality has both an inner (noumenal) aspect and an outer (phenomenal) aspect. Noumena apprehends phenomena and phenomena are apprehended by noumena, which are two sides of a single reality. These two sides form a complementary pair. A process is a computation conditioned by a model. A symbolic exchange process occuring between virtual systems. Primordial awareness.