Thus, while some of the uses of virtual environments presuppose that
old and entrenched ideas (about essences or optimality) have been
superseded, these abstract worlds can also be used to synthesize the
intuitions needed to dislodge other ideas blocking the way to a better
understanding of the dynamics of reality. -- DeLandaThis is a good one-sentence summary of DeLanda's realism. He gives examples as follow:
Population thinking seems to have vanished "essences" from the world of philosophy once and for all. Nonlinear dynamics, and more specifically, the notion of an "emergent property" would seem to signal the death of the philosophical position known as "reductionism" (basically, that all phenomena can in principle be reduced to those of physics).A relationship to phatics has to do with the nature of virtual environments, which themselves need to be synthesized. So, here we have a connection between the theme of realism -- the idea that we…
Population thinking seems to have vanished "essences" from the world of philosophy once and for all. Nonlinear dynamics, and more specifically, the notion of an "emergent property" would seem to signal the death of the philosophical position known as "reductionism" (basically, that all phenomena can in principle be reduced to those of physics).A relationship to phatics has to do with the nature of virtual environments, which themselves need to be synthesized. So, here we have a connection between the theme of realism -- the idea that we…