Ah, I see, when I control a virtual airplane the program is behind the scenes calculating all the mechanical, electrical, and {aero,hydro}dynamical forces, from the engine, from the control cables, from the landing gear, from everything, all the time, so we can call it a flight simulator. Oh wait, it doesn't! It just makes a rough estimate of the aerodynamical forces, to what you would expect it to behave. Then according to your (wrong) definition, we should call it a flight emulator.

I didn't RTFA, but let me point out that his definition is one way to implement a simulator. Let me summarize it for you:
Simulator: functionality, what it does.
Emulator: function, how it does.

Both do it, only the objectives are different.

It is one more piece on the 1984 puzzle. It actually made me remember the movie What About Bob?: baby steps to total information awareness / citizen extortion state, baby steps to police state, baby steps to fucking irrecoverable totalitarian oligarchy... hey, is that Winston Smith?

Nanananananananana ROBIN!!!! Sorry, I've been bribed.

"Chinese technology startup ANTVR [...]"
From: http://games.slashdot.org/stor...

Like... hmm... C?

I see. But I asked because the root of this thread doesn't have any constructive content... therefore you should have just ignored it, IMHO.

Does he argue for something different than 'don't feed the trolls'?

Yeah, I hear you... smelling the pussy would increase the realism tenfold. Too bad I'm allergic to cat hair.

Penrose's is an argument from ignorance. There is so much noise in neuron communication that any quantum effect is pretty much irrelevant. It is like saying the hive or ant colony behavior depends on quantum effects... you can say it, but it will not make you look smart.

US armed forces should want leaders with morals and ethics, instead of the usual bunch that send them to die based on lies (I'm looking at you Chenney, you bastard).

Yep, higher cost, but the money stayed in the local economy. IMHO, that's the most important aspect of all, even if it had cost more after 5 years.

pygame is a good recommendation. Once I found a nice game that was written by a beginner, so I took his code and made some improvements, just to show how it could be done. Perhaps the OP might find interesting the historic of this git repo: https://github.com/dmbasso/ent...

Can you provide me a reference for the experiment you mentioned? It seems odd that motion circuits would be connected only to rods, as they get saturated pretty easily (in other words, wouldn't work in daylight conditions), and I didn't find any mention to it in [1]. Aren't you actually exploiting an artifact of binocular vision?

[1] Gollisch, Tim, and Markus Meister. “Eye Smarter than Scientists Believed: Neural Computations in Circuits of the Retina.” Neuron 65, no. 2 (January 28, 2010): 150–64. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2009.12.009.

Excuse me for hijacking the first post, but there are so many people writing stupid things below, that I have to point this out: https://www.coursera.org/cours...
Learn about neurology, it is very interesting. Preferentially, learn it before writing something about it as if you know it.