However, we still have to 'sign out' and return to the physical world in which we live. Thus we take our experiences with us and the two worlds merge influencing each other. The Internet is an amalgamation of thoughts, ideas, styles and theories originating from anyone, anywhere in the world. One of these theories, postmodernism, questions the ideals of modernism: the belief that everything is true and real, the positive attitude toward progress and the future. As in a 'virtual' world the notion of truth becomes an illusion. A key theorist related to this topic and the subject of postmodernity is Jean Baudrillard. In the 1970s he began theorizing the notion of 'simulation' whereby our sense of the real is eroded. Boundaries between the real and the 'hyper real' become blurred. Using the theory of signs (see appendix, fig 1) he suggests the relationship between signifier and signified no longer applies, only simulation remains. He talks of the Simulacrum (a copy of a copy with no original) and how eventually images replace reality. Baudrillard argues that the purpose of Disneyland is to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact everything is Disneyland (Baudrillard 1983). Theorist Sherry Turkle (Watson, pg 256) questioned the French Poststructuralists accounts of the "decentred" self and the use of computers to build "multiple selves".
These theorists of poststructuralism, and what would come to be called postmodernism, spoke words that addressed the relationship between the mind and the body but from my point of view had little to do with my own .This disjuncture between theory and lived experience .is one of the main reasons why multiple and decentred theories have been slow to catch on - or when they do, why we tend to settle back quickly into older, centralized ways of looking at things. (Bell, 2003).
However when putting the theory into practice she came to understand and experiment with the "decentred' self.
