Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.47960/3029-3103.225.11.29
DECODING AN ARTIFICIAL REALITY
Domagoj Galić
; Sveučilište u Mostaru, Filozofski fakultet
Mate Penava
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za filozofiju
Ana-Mari Bošnjak
; Sveučilište u Mostaru, Filozofski fakultet
Sažetak
The starting point of this paper is John Searle’s thesis on the social construction
of reality, an obvious example of this thesis being the concept of money. Namely,
the fact that certain pieces of paper (and cloth) have different values depends
on the intersubjective consensus of a society (a kind of a social contract). The
authors believe that although many things in today’s world are constructs, it does
not follow that these constructs do not have to have a rational basis. The postmo-
dern move away from facts and the overemphasis on interpretations have led to
a state that we currently liveg in a post-factual state. Although facts still exist,
they are starting to play an increasingly smaller role in political and wider social
life. A particularly illustrative example is the movement that Mounk (2023) calls
identity synthesis, and which is colloquially called the woke movement. The main
foundation of this approach to reality is the thesis that the feelings of the indivi-
dual are the most important thing in their interaction with reality and that reality
should be adapted to the individual. The consequence of such an attitude would
be the total fragmentation of reality and the impossibility of communication. If
the truth is only what we like and falsity is what we do not like, the concepts of
truth and falsity lose all meaning. In the political spectrum, the disappearance of
facts is mostly reflected in the growth of various populist options (both on the left
and on the right spectrum) and in the disappearance of the need for cooperation.
The positions of political opponents are rejected without reflection just because
the other party has offered them, and the rhetoric is sharpened and radicalized,
often on false grounds. The authors believe that the way out of this situation wo-
uld be in the rehabilitation of facts as a basis for constructing reality. In this way,
the living reality would cease to be artificial and become real, a consensus built
on rational foundations.
Ključne riječi
reality; artificial reality; identity synthesis; postmodernism; facts.
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Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2025.
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