“En el mundo no puede haber dos cosas iguales”: Borges, the Virtuality Continuum, and Mixed Reality in “Del rigor en la ciencia” (1946) and “Parábola del palacio” (1960)
Mario Sanchez Gumiel Jorge Luis Borges’ story “Del rigor en la ciencia” narrates how the creation of the map of an empire becomes so exact and precise that the mapped landscape of that empire eventually usurps the role of the original landscape as the real landscape. At the end, the original landscape recovers its status …