Let's say to kill a Proun, one Proun (Mario) simply has to jump directly on top of another (Goomba).
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Edwin A. Abbott 1884 : Wikipedia Summary, PDF
"by A Square"
Levels of simulation equal to platforms?
Leaving the platform and moving on to simulation level 2.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison 1967 : Wikipedia Summary, PDF
"What does AM mean? At first it meant Allied Mastercomputer, and then it meant Adaptive Manipulator, and later on it developed sentience and linked itself up and they called it an Aggressive Menace, but by then it was too late, and finally it called itself AM, emerging intelligence, and what it meant was I am . . . cogito ergo sum . . . I think, therefore I am...
One day AM woke up and knew who he was, and he linked himself, and he began feeding all the killing data, until everyone was dead, except for the five of us, and AM brought us down here... None of us knew why AM had saved five people, or why our specific five, or why he spent all his time tormenting us, nor even why he had made us virtually immortal...
We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. AM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak soft creatures who had built them, he had sought revenge."
Absorption Mechanisms: Katamari Damacy YouTube Video
The Stanford Prison Experiment, 1971
The 1971 ad for subjects in the Stanford Prison Experiment published in The Stanford Daily.
The Milgram Experiment, Yale University 1961
Tier system of understanding or who's in on it in Milgram Experiment.
Three individuals took part in each session of the experiment: The "experimenter", who was in charge of the session.
The "teacher", a volunteer for a single session. The "teacher" was led to believe that they were merely assisting, whereas they were actually the subject of the experiment. The "learner", an actor and a confederate of the experimenter, who pretended to be a volunteer.
