Simulation produces real symptoms and threatens the true-false distinction

Evidence

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn’t have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: “Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms” (Littré). Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the “true” and the “false,” the “real” and the “imaginary.” Is the simulator sick or not, given that he produces “true” symptoms? Objectively one cannot treat him as being either ill or not ill. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 10

Categorization

• DEFINE: The precise definition distinguishing simulation from dissimulation, anchored in the Littré illness example.
• XREF: connects to: Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9; Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74; In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #corroborates (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself #expands (0.82) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74
• Simulation begins when the distance between cause and effect collapses into implosion. #corroborates (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 114
• Power reverses strategies when the threat shifts from the real to simulation #expands (0.78) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 84
• In the simulation order, reality has become the alibi of the model. #corroborates (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 400
• Only simulacra exist; reality itself is a second-order simulation #complicates (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 184