What is Reality? Are we living in a Simulation? Virtual Reality Vs. Hyper Realty Final presentation on History of Ideas<Philosophy>

1. ACE PRESENTATIONS
FREE YOUR MIND

2. VIRTUAL REALITY &
SIMULATION
SSC-301: HISTORY OF IDEAS

3. WHAT IS REALITY?
• Reality is the state of things as they actually
exist, rather than
• as they may appear
• or might be imagined.

4. WORLD VIEW
• reality mean "perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes toward
reality“
• Self made realities “My reality is not your reality”
• Religious example: “You might disagree, but in my
reality, everyone goes to heaven."

5. VIRTUAL REALITY
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality by Michael R. Heim, seven different
concepts of virtual reality are identified:
1.Simulation
2. Interaction
3.Artificiality,
4.Immersion,
5.Telepresence,
6.Full-body immersion,
7.Network communication

6. VIRTUAL REALTIY
• Virtual means unreal
• VIRTURAL Reality means reproduction of real into some kind of other medium, mostly digital
and that medium by itself is not real
• There is some real in virtual but as a depiction
• Real have to exist so it can be made virtual
• Today Virtual seeks to be more real than real itself

7. WHAT IS REALITY OF VIRTUAL?
• "real effects produced, generated, by something which does not yet fully exist, which is not
yet fully actual“
• The Reality of the Virtual is a 2004 documentary film lecture by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj
Žižek.
• "There is nothing more miserable today," Mr. Zizek concludes, "than those people who
organize their life in order to enjoy themselves." The linchpin of his lecture is the notion that if
the goal of classic psychoanalysis was to liberate people from their repressions, mental health
under late capitalism requires the struggle to free ourselves from the compulsion to satisfy an
endless and irrational set of desires. Food for thought, if definitely an acquired taste

8. TYPES OF VIRTUAL
1. Imaginary Virtual
The Problem of Identity
We are all real and virtual at the same time
We cannot express all our identities at the same time
2. Symbolic Virtual
We believe in false concept of reality
Santa Clauss
13 replaced by 14
Tooth fairy

9. TYPES OF VIRTUAL
3. Real Virtual

10. VIRTUAL REALITY- MOVIES

11. VR GAMES

12. NEW VR SOCIAL MEDIA

13. REALITY VS HYPER REALITY

14. HYPER REALITY- JEAN BUDRILLARD
• ll is not well in the world of the capitalist code.
• Jean Baudrillard, account of the crisis of contemporary capitalism, through three related concepts: hyperreality, fascination
and implosion.
• Baudrillard terms hyperreality: is a special kind of social reality in which a reality is created or simulated from models, or
defined by reference to models – a reality generated from ideas.
• The term has implications of ‘too much reality’ – everything being on the surface, without mystery; ‘more real than reality’
– too perfect and schematic to be true, like special effects; and ‘para-reality’, an extra layer laid over, or instead of, reality.
• It is experienced as more real than the real, because of its effect of breaking down the boundary between real and
imaginary. It is a ‘real’ without ‘origin or reality’, a reality to which we cannot connect.

15. HYPER REALITY
• Hyperreality differs from other realities in that the division between reality and imaginary disappears.
Reality becomes a cybernetic game.
• It is as if, at a certain point of time, we left reality behind, and never noticed until now

16. FASHION FASCINATION AND MODELS
• Fashion is more beautiful than the beautiful, as the model is truer than the true. As a result, they are
fascinating.

17. IMPLOSION
• Baudrillard refers to this instability as implosion: this means that he sees the system collapsing from within.
• The system is no longer expanding – hence the turn to deterrence instead of war. It is in ‘involution’ –
collapsing in upon itself.
• For Baudrillard, the system has reached its culmination. It is accelerating towards its limit, which today is
expressed as implosion (rather than explosion or revolution).
• The growing density of simulations is destroying it. Implosion is swallowing all the energy of the real.
Implosion is similar to the idea of ‘internal contradictions’ in Marxism. It refers to a tendency to collapse
arising from the system’s own dynamics.

18. SIMULATION OF HYPER REALIY

19. WARS

21. SIMULATION

22. POSTHUMAN MADE SIMULATION

23. ARE YOU IN A SIMULATION?
HOW REAL ARE YOU?
• People are asleep when they die they will wake up- Imam Ali AS
• Thank You
• Sir IRFAN Mohammed