Benoit, Denis <br/><br/>
The role of “creative prediction” in the emergence of “new realities”  

 -  2007.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> According to philosophical constructivism, what we conceive of as “true” reality rather emerges from an interaction between our perception and the world, and from an interaction between human beings (namely, by a certain intersubjective consensus of perception, representation, knowledge). On this basis, the phenomenon of creative (or self-fulfilling) prediction operates as a kind of inverse causality: the real is no longer given from the outset but becomes a consequence of the postulates of the subject and her action (the real is so because I believe it is so and because, consequently, I acted thus, etc.). What are the effects of the massive diffusion of media messages (of violence), which are only supposed to “inform on” reality but which seem however to contribute in a complex process of interaction to the emergence of new social realities?