World simulator

Fontaras G, Pistikopoulos P, Samaras Z (2008) Experimental evaluation of hybrid vehicle fuel economy and pollutant emissions over real-world simulation driving cycles. Atmos Environ 42 4023 035... 

Charles T. Tart, The world Simulation Process Approach. Portions of this paper were originally presented in an invited address at the Seventh international Conference on Multiple Personality/Dissociative States, November 7-11, 1990, Chicago, under the title, "Life in the World Simulator Altered States, identification, Multiple Personality and Enlightenment."... 

This is the published version of the paper, which appeared as Multiple Personality, Altered States and Virtual Reality The World Simulation Process Approach, in the journal Dissociation, vol. 3, 222-233. Available over the web from http //www.paradi qm-svs.com/cttart/ (80k)... 

Living in a world simulator, then, means that what we think are direct perceptions of the physical world are arbitrary constructions of our brains, not the things themselves. Our apparently direct experience of the world is actually indirect. 

If this were all that living in the world simulator meant, it would not be a great problem. Perceptions could be taken for granted in everyday life whatever the real physical nature of fire, whether it makes me itch, shiver, or feel cold or tense or relaxed or elated, I nevertheless have learned that fire can burn and so 1 will treat it carefully. If I am curious about the nature of the outside world in and of itself, I can employ scientific instruments and procedures to learn about its properties that are not adequately represented in my (arbitrarily constructed) sensory perceptions. Unfortunately, living in the world simulator has much more important meanings. 

Consciousness as world simulator is functioning quite well in suppression. Both the outside world and your own position are represented realistically. Your operational thinking, simulation of the consequences, is realistic ( I won t make a good impression on the people if I scratch ), and so your behavior is adaptive. The simulation of the world and your position in it is realistic, but you deliberately control the attention and energy available to parts of the simulation so that the urge to scratch is starved. 

In looking at consciousness from the world simulator model in previous chapters, we noted that an effective and healthy simulation is one that accurately mirrors the outside world and our own essential or deeper feelings and values. The more accurately the outside physical world is simulated, the more useful simulations of various courses of action (operational thinking) will be. Reaction formation is a major distortion of the world simulation process, for what we perceive about our reaction to an event is opposite to our more basic initial reaction. Our simulations about further courses of actions and their consequences, and our subsequent behavior, will then be flawed. 

Identification is a quality created in the world simulation process. The quality This is me originally stems from straightforward sensory connections 1 see my hand in front of my face, it is connected to my arm, it responds to my will, a touch on my hand by someone else feels quite different than when that person touches the furniture, and so on. The This is me quality is then applied to some mental processes, some simulations, so when a certain experience is retrieved from memory, it comes already tagged with the This is me Priority treatment quality. 

Projection is the opposite of identification. When an unacceptable feeling or desire comes up, instead of being labeled This is me the world simulation process labels it This is what someone else feels or wants. Since projective defense occurs about unacceptable, bad feelings and desires, other people are seen as bad. 

In rationalization, the world simulation process constructs a good simulation of the external situation but a poor representation of your position in the matter. 

While a significant number of papers published describe GPU implementations of MD, a review of the literature reveals very few cited uses of these codes in "real-world" simulations. Indeed only Pande et al. have such papers published at the time of writing. This serves to underscore the nascent nature of this field. 

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