PHIL 1180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 48: Paul Shepard, Virtual Reality
5 May 2016
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Paul shepard: virtually hunting reality in the forests of simulacra. Our representations of the world are always interpretations: reality is invented by words, inaccessibility of reality to virtual reality . Issue of validity of surrogates for living organisms. The nature of authenticity and the authenticity of nature are ambiguous. We have separated ourselves from reality: origins and truth have become meaningless, simulacra: a slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance, is all that our interpretation of the natural world is, dangerous for human interactions with nature. The plastic and the natural are becoming undefined. With cultural wedges driven between humans and nature, a distinct separateness, autonomy, and control has been established: consciousness must be ecologized.
