Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented by icantevenhold on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:06AM (#49773984)

Whether anything a perfectly simulated human brain (or other organism see the fruit fly simulated brain) does is actually real - in the same sense it’s real for you and me - is still up for debate i think.

Assuming it’s possible to perfectly simulate a human brain

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Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented by sssilver on Sunday September 20, 2026 @12:15PM (#49777249)

A “perfect simulation” is no longer a simulation.

The definition of the word “simulation” is:

> A simulation is the artificial imitation of a real-world process, system, or event using a model

As we know, “all models are wrong; some models are useful”.

A “perfect simulation” is, then, an oxymoron.

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Re:Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented by icantevenhold on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @02:11PM (#49820194)

Thanks for the semantics, a perfect imitation would be a better description

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