The Elegant Simulation: From the Simulation Debate to an Ontology of Rendering
Preprints.org July 29, 2026 Tonatiu Campos-García preprint
This essay proposes the elegant simulation as a reframing of the philosophical simulation debate. Its aim is not to provide evidence that reality is or is not a simulation, but to ask what kind of architecture would make a simulated reality plausible as a lived world. Contemporary discussions of simulation often focus on whether our world could be generated by advanced external agents. I argue...