simulation, (n.)​:

1. a situation in which a particular set of conditions is created artificially in order to study or experience something that could exist in reality

2. the act of pretending that something is real when it is not

Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city – as one loses oneself in a forest – that calls for quite a different schooling.