- virtual philosophy poses the quesion 'what is reality'
- virtual has come to mean 'almost the same' so that virtual reality is 'almost the same' as reality
- Plato from 2000 years ago came up with the idea that there are things in life that can be considered essential to somethings nature (or an ideal form- which is something in nature that has this)
- this idea came along before people new what the atom was
- it is a 'perfect' form of this subject
- which is subject to everyone's personal subjectivity
- Plato's essences were played out through 'the cave'
- the main idea of this (as a metaphoror concept) was that if everyone was sitting and looking at a cave, behind everyone are the 'essences' which people cannot see. The essences are replicated as the 'fire of life'. The fires shadow is our reality. We dont always experience the full essence of our reality
- Guy Debord thought of the 'society as spectacles' and the mediation of society.
- he thought that this was (as reality tv) to entertain us.
- we as people dont like reality because we ahve become so bored with it.
- we have been trained by everyday media just like classical conditioning.
- Umberto Eco created 'hyper reality'
- this means that reality is not just real, it is hyper-real
- our reality is media oriented
- thanks to extensions of our body, we can suddenly experience reality like never before
- J Baudrillard wrote of the similar or 'simulacrum'
- meanging that everything that we experience is a copy of that thing (philosophical)
- we approach computers as the 'mediators of reality'
- two french philosophers came up with the theory in thier book 'what is philosophy' (below)
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PRESENT MOMENT
(Plato's essences)
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