Abstract

Simulation loves to hide. Virtual reality between Jean Baudrillard and David Chalmers This essay faces the question of simulation from two different perspectives. The first one is linked to the concept of Hyper-reality conceived by Jean Baudrillard, the second one is elaborated through the concept of Reality+ proposed by David Chalmers. This two concepts can be used to investigate the existenzial phase shift generated by Virtual Reality. The latter, as a risult of the ontological refondation between anthropos and the world, echoes the fondative issue of Western civilitation, materialized in the seamless circuit between artificium and reality. Nowadays, this circuit repeats the ancestral question of anthropos in a new way: how can Homo Sapiens reshapes its narrations within the Virtual Reality?