JEAN BAUDILLARD

AND THE MATRIX

LORENA HEVIA
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JEAN BAUDILLARD
(1929-2007)

POST-MODERN FRENCH THINKER

AND CRITIC
_sociologist
_cultural theorist
_philosopher

ANALYSIS
technological communications
mass communication
computer sciences
simulated realities (computer
simulation) and social changes.

Theory
simulated environments and the
alteration of real meanings.
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JEAN BAUDILLARD
CONCEPTS

REAL
SIMULACRUM
SIMULATION
SIMULACRA
HYPERREALITY
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HOW DO WE KNOW THAT WHAT WE EXPERIENCE IS REAL?

WHAT IS THE REAL? HOW DO YOU DEFINE THE REAL?...
The real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain
(Morpheu / The Matrix, 1999)
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THE MATRIX EMBODIES THE POST-MODERN PHILOSOPHY AND

CRISIS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REALITY AND THE IMAGINARY.

BAUDRILLARD THEORY
advance of technologies, simulation and the effacement of the reality and hyperreality
(from Simulacra and Simulation).
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THE HUMAN REALITY AS A HYPERREALITY: FICTIONAL REALITY INSIDE A COMPUTER PROGRAM,

GENERATED THROUGH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER CODES.
This hyperreality was a copy of the reality of 20th century (1999): duplicated version of the real world that looks more real and beautiful
than the real one (2199: a darkness world without sun and destructed as a consequence of a war between human beings and machines).
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THE MATRIX AS FORM OF CONTROL

A simulated reality -generated by machines- used to keep human beings blinds and passives
in order to use them as a source of energy.
it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth
(Morpheu / The Matrix, 1999)
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THE MATRIX AS A NEURAL INTERACTIVE SIMULATION SYSTEM

THAT KEEP PEOPLE LIVING IN A DREAMWORLD.
Human beings pass their lives growing within pods and dreaming a simulated reality.
People pass their lives thinking they are living in a real world.
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