contrary it can be applied to take advantage of the situation and construct a
satisfactory environment where we can fulfill our needs, still being aware
that we are ‘partially residing’ in a virtual context. We live in a kind of
multiple reality where reality and unreality can potentially coexist and
coincide in time and space. The idea of ‘this is or this is not real’ should be
replaced by ‘this has a certain grade of reality’. The alternative to this,
either the passive acceptance or the complete denial of the information we
receive, is equivalent to the formation of a multiplicity of personalities that
will depend on the source (and reality) of the information and the resultant
confusion.
In this way, the ‘prolongation’ of reality through virtuality will not
necessarily impoverish or remove reality, but can potentially enrich reality.
We have to comprehend that reality is constantly changing, and the future
conceptions of reality will inevitably be different as they will likely
incorporate what we understand today as unreal or virtual dimensions.
Indeed, the virtual spaces created by technology ensure that economic,
social, ethnic and gender factors do not have the same influence in the
interrelations that occur in these territories where equality and freedom of
expression acquire new meaning. We simply need to learn how to use the
capacities that virtuality offers, and prevent, through knowledge and
understanding, the potential dangers that they imply. Once we are aware of
what technology ‘means’ and how it can influence our lives, we will be
prepared to discover, inhabit and return from these domains.
We have to adapt our social and cultural knowledge to the evolution of
technology if we do not want to be immersed in social and psychological
dysfunctions and be ignorant about of our creations. Consequently, we should
break the social duality of reality and unreality and reconcile both concepts.
The static and rigorous description of these notions does not only imply
difficulties but simultaneously suggests a strategic error. Reality and
unreality are fluid, changing and dynamic concepts and their status requires a
redefinition and the creation of new concepts. In this sense, (un)reality could
be a solution to denominate all the ambiguous spaces created between both
spheres. (Un)reality means the fusion, and simultaneously the assumption, of
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