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Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality

Author(s) -

Svend Erik Larsen

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

sign systems studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.17

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1736-7409

pISSN - 1406-4243

DOI - 10.12697/sss.2001.29.1.12

Subject(s) - virtuality (gaming) , semiotics , deixis , epistemology , sociology , perspective (graphical) , relation (database) , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , artificial intelligence , database

The paper places the trendy notion of virtuality and virtual reality in a conceptual and historical context that makes it useful in a semiotic perspective. Virtuality is connected with the classical notion of fictionality, in its meaning of both invention and deception. Historically an active, a passive, and a neutral version of the concept can be distinguished. The notion is reinterpreted as a variant of the semiotic processes of deixis. In relation to nature - scenarios, prognoses, hypotheses, etc. - virtuality is seen as a means of anchoring the human subject in nature instead of constructing a nonreal universe separated from it.

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