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Computer simulation, rhetoric, and the scientific imagination: How virtual evidence shapes science in the making and in the news

机译：计算机模拟，修辞学和科学想象力：虚拟证据如何在制作和新闻中塑造科学

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As the title of Aimee Kendall Roundtree's monograph suggests, computer simulations have moved out of the realm of science fiction to become integral pieces of evidence both in the sciences and in the popular media. With spectacular detail, these dynamic images illustrate phenomena that are too small or too distant for the unaided human eye to observe. They have also become a fixture of evening news meteorology, sometimes predicting the course of a hurricane with preternatural accuracy. The fact that we invest so much meaning in these complex visual renderings of mathematical equations makes Roundtree's contribution timely and necessary for rhetorical intervention. Until this point, theories of how computer simulations function in the real world have been the province of philosophers whose cogitations have resulted in polemics such as Nick Boltrom's now infamous assertion that it is highly likely that we are currently living in a computer simulation. As a matter of thoroughness that marks her research, Roundtree dutifully recounts this line of inquiry; however, she wisely avoids positing an answer to the question of whether our shared reality is indeed a computer simulation on the scale of The Matrix or Descartes's brain in a vat.
机译：正如Aimee Kendall Roundtree专着的书名所暗示的那样，计算机模拟已经脱离了科幻小说的领域，已成为科学和大众媒体中不可或缺的证据。这些动态图像以引人注目的细节来说明现象，这些现象对于人的肉眼来说太小或太远。它们也已成为晚间新闻气象学的固定装置，有时以超自然的准确性预测飓风的进程。我们在数学方程式的这些复杂的视觉表示中投入了太多的事实，这使得Roundtree的贡献是及时且必要的，用于修辞干预。到现在为止，关于计算机模拟在现实世界中如何发挥作用的理论一直是哲学家的专长，他们的交往导致了诸如尼克·博特罗姆（Nick Boltrom）现在臭名昭著的断言，即我们目前很可能生活在计算机模拟中。作为她研究的标记，Roundtree尽职尽责地叙述了这方面的询问。但是，她明智地避免对以下问题提出答案：我们的共同现实的确是按《黑客帝国》或笛卡尔的大桶大脑进行计算机模拟。

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