(Walk & Talk) Do We Live In A Simulation? Exploring Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulation"

*Simulacra and Simulation is a 1981 philosophical treatise by the sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which the author seeks to examine the relationships between reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.

Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original. Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.

..."The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."
— The quote is credited to Ecclesiastes, but the words do not occur there. It can be seen as an addition,[4] a paraphrase and an endorsement of Ecclesiastes' condemnation[5] of the pursuit of wisdom as folly and a 'chasing after wind'—see for example Ecclesiastes
*From Wikipedia

More resources to explore these ideas:

American Psycho, Baudrillard and the Postmodern Condition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJfurfb5_kw

Critical critical theory theory | with Wokal Distance and James Lindsay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLoKoySvxys&t=3102s

What did Baudrillard think about The Matrix?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf9J35yzM3E

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