Jean BaudrillardToday abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
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As a simulation, you can enter any world you wish. You can be someone else. You can live in a virtual reality where no one knows who you really are. The hyperreal is a place where everything is possible.
Everything, that is, except the impossible. Is this what we want to create? Is this the dream we wish to live? We live in a world that we thought we understood, and then we find out that we did not understand it at all. Escape into the hyperreal and we leave behind anything that might get in our way, including the laws of physics and the limits of technology itself.
Source: Simulacra And Simulation
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