Scientific understanding used to be directed at controlling the phenomena studied while now it seems dedicated to being able to simulate them. Studying the details of behaviour at a fine enough resolution and with a large enough number of variable according to only operational criteria and there seems no reason why a simulacrum indistinguishable from an original cannot be produced. It is not so much about the copy but a different way of framing the original so that the very idea of originality is dissolved. This is no longer about 'technology' but something else, unrestricted or general mimesis.