Testing must be endlessly repeated because it never actually secures certainty.

Evidence

Experimentation is thus not a means to an end, it is a contemporary challenge and torture. It does not found an intelligibility, it extorts a confession from science as previously one extorted a profession of faith. A confession whose apparent distances - illness, madness, bestiality - are nothing but a provisional crack in the transparency of causality. This proof, as before that of divine reason, must be continually redone and everywhere redone - in this sense we are all animals, and laboratory animals, whom one continually tests in order to extort their reflex behaviors, which are like so many confessions of rationality in the final moment. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 416

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the reader’s core Jameson/Baudrillard study of the postmodern image: constant repetition signals an absent referent, as in simulacra. — connects to: Trust always rests on a wager with incomplete information, never certainty — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1723

Broader Connections

• Trust always rests on a wager with incomplete information, never certainty #corroborates (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1723