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Originally Posted by Noclevername
With all due respect to Answers, I think the two words have somewhat different connotations. A thing can be artificial (manmade) and still identical to the "natural" version.
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Well, that would be consistent with the equivalence principle. But, anyway, I don't see a useful distinction in this case between "simulated" and "artificial" - which is why I suspected a joke before I googled the synonyms.