Reality challenged by the virtual world

Nowadays, when we have entered into the age of the digital revolution, humanity –same as the structural forms in which social exchanges have been maintained all through history– head toward a radical transformation that we could name “heterogenesis”, which menaces in subverting the basic mental cond...

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Autor principal: Leiva, Rodrigo
Formato: Revistas
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (Ecuador) 2013
Acceso en línea:https://universitas.ups.edu.ec/index.php/universitas/article/view/19.2013.06
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Sumario:Nowadays, when we have entered into the age of the digital revolution, humanity –same as the structural forms in which social exchanges have been maintained all through history– head toward a radical transformation that we could name “heterogenesis”, which menaces in subverting the basic mental conditions of all natural order: body, sexual identity, death, and sickness certainty, even reality itself as never after is beginning to dissolve it’s basis in the psychical dimension. Humanity has pull out its own species skin in order to find in the virtual, in the screens bright, its new identity –imaginary– as “superman”, free from the ties of what is real but absorbed by the hallucinogenic pleasure of a fake reality from which we are prisoners. Which are the consequences that a disproportionate impact with synthetic realities brings to the mental health of humans?