/lit/ - Literature

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>what we might be doing is saying, look, you have no way of knowing who you are except through simulation, except through virtuality. what is being simulated, the content, doesn't really matter. what matters is *fidelity.* it's true that the map is not the territory, but with virtuality you kind of are the map, and simulation is the territory, brought to you by algorithms and computation.

it's like we're just what you get when an ultimate simulator can't be simulated. i know hegel tries to communicate this. we're kind of the Idea if the Idea was substance, but of course it is, ideality establishes itself as its noncoincidence with itself, just this constant machinic repetition of 'are we there yet' that is the mechanism of specularization you're talking about.