> Following Nurit's post,
> I think you may like this article by Brian Mockenhaupt (The Atlantic) I recently bumped into. It is about simulation and war, and the application of Urbansim for military strategy in Iraq:
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> http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/military-simulate
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> And while reading it, I wonder who has the right to simulate, and what the aims of simulation can be. Is this all a game? Do local people have instruments to simulate tactics of resistance, apart from resist on a daily, very earthly basis?
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> Federica
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>> Dear Yasminers
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>> I thought this might be interesting to add to the simulation
>> discussion before it ends.
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>> The PBS Frontline "Digital Nation" By Rachel Dretzin and Douglas
>> Rushkoff.
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/
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>> In chapter 8, 01:06:55 min into the chapter, the filmmakers introduce
>> an interesting topic: the "Drones" (http://bit.ly/95F2Kk) .
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>> Based out side Las Vegas, US air force pilots fly Drones that execute
>> missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>> 75,000 miles away from the battlefield, they wear uniforms, to remind
>> them they are fighting a 'real' war.
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>> Here technology rewrites the rule of the game, where the risks are
>> all one way, the pilot gets to shoot without getting shot at.
>> This is a different reality where soldiers are dealing out risk
>> without excepting risk.
>> This detachment to risk, to real life danger is somehow disturbing.
>> At the end of the day these pilots go back home to their families,
>> and back to "war" the next morning.
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>> While physically located in the US their are effecting lives of
>> others in a distant place.
>> This theater simulation, while engaging with reality, is not unique
>> to the US air force. Wars are changing and the consequences will
>> resonate.
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>> Are new technologies recontextualizing all the theories we discuss here?
>> Reshaping (and re-shaking) the world we live in?
>> When the simulacra, the "representational" universe, could in fact
>> effect something or somebody in the real world.
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>> In this example the body doesnt experience danger only the mind.
>> How does this effect our survival mechanism? - this might be a
>> question for the scientist here.
>> or how would it effect the notion of presence?
>> Will our mind learn to adopt to this new state? and how?
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>> The artist here would agree that none verbal experiences can effect
>> physically, emotionally and intellectually. A great work of art can
>> communicate divine experiences though sounds, visuals etc. Empathy,
>> and more scientifically mirror neurons, can simulate in us an
>> experience as if it was us experiencing it.
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>> How would that effect mirror neurons, for example, would they have
>> different function in the future? Will our brain develop differently
>> due to our growing virtual experiences?
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>> Best,
>> Nurit Bar-Shai
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