As we increasingly rely on models and simulations, we’ll have to by necessity redefine what “simulation” means, and thus we will have also to re-evaluate and recontextualize the meaning, nature and scope of reality.

Simulation might not be real. But when simulacra alter reality and the collective societal nous recursively, simulation and reality are then conjoined and unitary — whether or not the simulation conforms to some now-invisible “true” reality.