Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself

Evidence

It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and shortcircuits all its vicissitudes. Never again will the real have the chance to produce itself - such is the vital function of the model in a system of death, or rather of anticipated resurrection, that no longer even gives the event of death a chance. A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469; Simulation produces real symptoms and threatens the true-false distinction — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 10; Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #expands (0.92) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• A simulated God leaves the entire system a weightless self-referential simulacrum #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 18
• Simulation produces real symptoms and threatens the true-false distinction #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 10
• Commercial television’s fictive time is a second-degree simulation of real fictiveness #exemplifies (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 222
• Only simulacra exist; reality itself is a second-order simulation #expands (0.78) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 184
• Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself #corroborates (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74
• Models can become true by reshaping reality to fit them #expands (0.72) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1426
• Postmodern science fiction implodes inward to revitalize fragments of simulation #expands (0.72) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 406
• Model parameters were chosen for visual clarity rather than fidelity to real physiology #exemplifies (0.72)