Is Zion more real than the Matrix?
Or are they equivalent?
Is virtual reality ontologically parallel to actual reality?
If according to skepticism, our perception can always deceive us and we can never have any knowledge of the external world, then the differentiation between the "real" world and the "illusionary" world means nothing to us. Therefore, Matrix is as "real", or "illusionary" as Zion, and virtual reality can be just like "reality" for us if we are immersed in it.
At the same time, Baudrillard also intelligibly argues that: "All western faith and good faith became engaged in this wager on representation: that a sign could refer to the depth of meaning, that a sign could be exchanged for meaning and that something could guarantee this exchange — God of course. But what if God himself can be simulated, that is to say can be reduced to the signs that constitute faith? Then the whole system becomes weightless, it is no longer itself anything but a gigantic simulacrum — not unreal, but a simulacrum, that is to say never exchanged for the real, but exchanged for itself, in an uninterrupted circuit without reference or circumference." (The Precession of Simulacra, Jean Baudrillard)
Therefore, we seem to reach the uneasy conclusion that there is no "truth". "the simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulation is true." --- Ecclesiastes
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I'm a little confused here. Virtual reality exists as an illusion or something. Since it exists, it must be a part of actual reality. All that you feel, since exist as sensory stimulas, must be part of reality.
ReplyDeleteSo why not both are real, just with a different names? It might be fine to suppose all the different world are all real with different names.