The example of dreaming, for Revonsuo, is an important motivation for introducing the "world-simulation metaphor of consciousness", according to which consciousness itself is essentially simulational and dreamlike, thus supporting Revonsuo's favored internalist conception of conscious experience.
Both claims, however, are crucial for his attempt to show that dreaming offers particularly clear support for the "world-simulation metaphor of consciousness".
Narayanan's more recent work demonstrates through computer simulation how metaphors emerge as a natural consequence of the functional architecture and known information processing constraints of the human brain.
However, the PSO is driven by the simulation of a social psychological metaphor motivated by collective behaviors of bird and other social organisms instead of the survival of the fittest individual.
It's all action and no substance, unless you like faux-spiritualism psychobabble and blatant metaphors about the simulation of reality.
Biological metaphors abound in computational modeling and simulation, inspiring creative and novel approaches to conceptualizing, representing, simulating and analyzing a wide range of phenomena.
It is unclear whether Metzinger has successfully avoided the implication of a homunculus watching TV inside the head, which seems inevitably to follow from his talk about "projection" or "simulation", though he does recognise that some of his metaphors are metaphors.
Case studies are presented from six different applications – a Virtual Factory simulation, Rail simulation, development of visual interaction metaphors for design visualisation, development of collaboration technologies to support industrial decision-making, representation of material properties in Virtual Environments (VE), and development of speech interaction for VR.
She uses the idea of "legacy codes," the formulas for Dr. Lee's computer simulations of nuclear explosions, as an elaborate metaphor for mixed messages: between cultures, between generations, between lovers.
While this is an intriguing metaphor, it is not clear that the simulation theorist can provide an adequate account of how we are to cash it out.
Complex systems theory is built on a diverse range of metaphors, hypotheses, mathematical theorems, and modeling and simulation techniques.
