On Atomism and Simulation, 2022

As a part of the University of Texas at Dallas interdisciplinary graduate seminar on Simulated Realities, taught by Dr. Roger Malina and Dr. Thomas Riccio, this essay philosophically explores definitions of simulation and reality as they relate to conscious experience from neuroscience and physics perspectives. Above, depiction of the retinal fovea through time. Below, a single red-blue-green cone cell randomized foveal depiction.