Eli5: What is the difference between Emulation and Simulation?
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Everyone is trying to go into exact specifics here about what “emulation” is attached to, but realistically, they’re kind of the same thing.
A PS2 emulator is simulating a PS2 for instance. So realistically we could be living in a simulation or an emulation and they would both mean the same thing.
If life exists on a higher plain outside our universe for instance, and we are living in a “simulation,” then whoever created that simulation is trying to “emulate” their life and its constants.
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