The Knowledge
by Simulation: the Imagination Assisted by Computers
By Jonatan Rafael
When
Descartes (2008) told us at 1637 that the act of read fiction was the same of
meeting ancient nobles and it stimulates the imagination of strange trips and experiences
he couldn’t realize that about four centuries later everything he said would be
possible through an intricate network of machines which are able to simulate an
universe in parallel.
Usually,
we use the same process described for René Descartes, however, instead of books
we handle computers, smartphones, tablets or another digital mean which allows
an electronic mediation between information and receptor. Then, we can say we
don’t acquire the knowledge by practice or theorize it but for simulation and
this process is described by Lévy (2010) as "the imagination assisted by
computers".
Initially,
the simulation of real was only escape and freedom and it was stereotyped
through videogames but after information science progress the computers became
part of system which created an “universe in parallel”.
Little
by little - with a phenomenon called by Mcluhan as “electric revolution" –
the digital means of communication have become popular and were updated. All
over the world schools bought computers to help in the learning process and
gave direction about how to use a pc for their pupils. Nonetheless, they need
to be present – physically – at school. The internet connection wasn’t used as
an instrument of teaching yet.
Ever
since the information memory replaced the experience and it needed the act of
making an action to get how something works. We are able to say that the
information memory is focused on the process of teaching and its own speed. So,
when the speed of teaching and learning is the main subject it's possible to figure
out that a source send a information using an associative way, it means, the
subject takes the receptor to another related subject and so on (BUSH, 1945).
Thus,
we are able to say that only the meanings worth it and that is way so many
graphic interferences are present nowadays in webpages. Well, this phenomenon
was entitled by Pierre Lévy (2010) as “the decay of the truth”. After all, we can see that those interferences
are a kind of interpretation with the only intention of facilitate interpretations
before it so hard.
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