“Gods reappear in unlimited numbers in the guise of the simulators who have the power of life and death over the simulated realities that they bring into being. The simulators determine the laws, and can change the laws, that govern their worlds. They can engineer anthropic fine-tunings. They can pull the plug on the simulation at any moment, intervene or distance themselves from their simulation; watch as the simulated creatures argue about whether there is a god who controls or intervenes, work miracles or impose their ethical principles upon the simulated reality.”
"Glitch," New Scientist (June 7, 2003)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
John D. Barrow 58
British scientist 1952–2020Related quotes

"Is the Brain’s Mind a Computer Program?", Scientific American (January 1990).

The Precession of Simulcra, The Divine Irreference Of Images
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
"Statistical Mentality" https://web.archive.org/web/20110718052233/http://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/index.php/article/detail/522/statistical-mentality (2011)

The Precession of Simulcra
1980s, Simulacra and Simulation (1981)
George (1973) "Soviet Cybernetics, the militairy and Professor Lerner" in: New Scientist (March 15, 1973). Vol. 57, nr. 837. p. 613

Number 104.
Counsels and Reflections (1857)
Source: Information and Decision Processes (1960), p. viii-ix