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Another podcast about this subject. He points that social networks can be described as a simulations. Two persons can be physically at the same place looking to

• hcarvalhoalves 6y ago
  Which is why “fake news” or conspiracies are a big thing now. People are already detached from reality, where facts don’t matter, everything is narrative.
  • admiral33 6y ago
    I think that crying "fake news" and theorizing about conspiracies are a desperate attempt to call out and see past the simulacra. An example of simulacra would be Keeping up With the Kardashians - a representation of someone else's life that is not their actual life (there is no possible way that it could be their actual life, even if it was a 24 hour livestream, simply because of the fact that it is being delivered through a screen), same thing with social media. A conspiracy theory about the show could be "this is only being shown to me to make me want to buy makeup". The conspiracy theory is just an attempt to discover some aspect - however small - of the simulation that is based in reality, rather than just buying into the simulation at face value. Of course, conspiracy theories are usually spread through the same medium (a screen) so they are just as simulated as the other simulated content. I don't think we should be discouraging people from trying to unveil the simulacra regardless. Imagine a world where everyone believed every piece of news as absolutely true. We'd still have a geocentric model of our solar system. As long as I can hear vocal disagreement about what is true, I can sleep at night knowing that some progress is being made.
    • hcarvalhoalves 6y ago
      Yeah, but the solution is to be skeptical, not get lost in your own conspiracy theories. If you’re not skeptical you get manipulated any direction.