Virtual Overcomming of Representationalism

Abstract

Virtuality Virtuality is first seen as a way of overcoming the representational semantic paradigm embodied in the concept of simulation. It will be shown that virtuality overcomes the simulative relation of signification by creating an alternative version of reality, so not fake (simulated) real objects, but true virtual objects. We are talking about objects for which the question of the real referent, the signified one, that is, the real reality, does not play any role. In the context of these considerations, it is important to determine the position of the concept of fiction, because, like the virtual, the fictional world (spatially and temporally) separates itself from the criteria of the true and false „objective“ world and creates its own criteria of truth that do not necessarily coincide with those of the real world. When it comes to virtuality, there is a key shift in these relations, because unlike the fictional world, in the virtual world, subject interaction with the virtual space is possible, whereby the subject's autonomy is not questioned in principle. This concept of virtuality coincides with what is called virtual reality, and refers primarily to technically induced virtual worlds. The categorical shift that we call real virtuality is also technically conditioned, which removes the fictitious dimension from virtual reality in such a way as to introduce it into the world of real objective relations, tending to erase any difference between the actions of technical systems and reality itself.