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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by frobozz on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:27AM (#13929778)
No, at most you can say it requires a way to introduce those chemicals into the bloodstream in the brain.

Actually, all you need is a way to stimulate the same receptors that are stimulated by those chemicals.

Just as with unit testing, you don't actually need to hook up your SUT to a real environment, you just need to hook it up to something that will exercise the same interface as a real environment.

Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by Ntrails on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:53AM (#13931398)
Indeed. I over-simplified - but whatever the mechanism people refer to it's mockable.