What is the simulacra? It is a copy of a copy that replaces the original reference. A photo that comes to represent you, is the simulacra. A video of the image, of you, becomes the copy of the copy. A simulation and replacement. We are consistently engaged in a pseudo-reality of our own making. That is what I want people to understand. These are images of me. This is a video of "me." Is it real? Or is it simulacra? The answer is whether the pixels on your screen are real.
Do you find this video ironic in the sense of using simulacra, to explain simulacra?
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This is a "game" I created, and used to play with my kids and younger family members. I would "guess" the number they are thinking of. Figure out how it guesses your number.
https://neighbahood.com/games/thementalist.html
Poetry in motion. Characters from my children's books have been animated and I wrote a few songs (little mini-poems), and set them to music. It's cute. If you have children who loves children's songs, you can find them on Youtube and on my children's website, https://penelopeprincessballerina.com
Next Monday, tune in to WORT FM 89.9 Madison on December 22, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. CST where I will be appearing to talk about my book The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms and Observations on the Nature of Reality and Existence.
https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm
The Absence of Reality: Aphorisms, Observations, Reality and the Nature of Existence (A Chapbook) by E. Hughes is coming soon. Release date: October 23, 2025.
The Absence of Reality explores human existence and whether we are living in an artificial reality. An artificial reality is the construct of social and technological advances, the hidden objective reality, and humanity's inability to perceive the world in its natural unaltered state. As the human population marches forward to the Initium Novum Era of human existence, the next stage of artificial reality, simulacra, and simulated environments, are we coding our own extinction?
Madison clarke Amazing book cover !
My event is tomorrow on August 30, 2025 at Goodman South Public Library for a discussion: Demystifying AI: Is it the future of humanity or our demise? With E. Hughes, author of Reality Unbound: The Digital Mind (and the Nature of Reality). I will do my best to live-stream the event if possible for online participants who decide to register. Visit my philosophy website, https://realityunbound.org/ for details
For anyone interested in reading notes on the August 9th event for Demystifying AI: Is it the Future of Humanity or our demise? Please visit https://realityunbound.org/ for details and notes on what we covered. See you on August 30th!