@article{Larsen_2001, title={Nature between fact and fiction: A note on virtual reality}, volume={29}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2001.29.1.12}, DOI={10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.12}, abstractNote={<p>The paper places the trendy notion of virtuality and virtual reality in a conceptual and historical context that makes it useful in a semiotic perspective. Virtuality is connected with the classical notion of fictionality, in its meaning of both invention and deception. Historically an active, a passive, and a neutral version of the concept can be distinguished. The notion is reinterpreted as a variant of the semiotic processes of deixis. In relation to nature - scenarios, prognoses, hypotheses, etc. - virtuality is seen as a means of anchoring the human subject in nature instead of constructing a nonreal universe separated from it.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Sign Systems Studies}, author={Larsen, Svend Erik}, year={2001}, month={Dec.}, pages={187–202} }