Media Processes: transformations of religious discourse in the context of algorithmization 159 ity, a condition I found myself in. How many times have I heard that phrase: is curiosity a bad guilt?” (JEAN, 2019, p. 19). For her, we must dive into the virtual world to under- stand the real. These two worlds, real and virtual, are separated by a model, a mathematical and algorithmic representation of reality. To understand how this model works is to understand what reconnects these two worlds (p.20). In this sense, she states: “Diving into a numerical virtual world to answer those questions that no one has been able to answer in the real world: the perspective is thrilling” (JEAN, 2019, p. 67). Why dive into the virtual world to understand the real? Until the beginning of the Third Millennium, technical develop- ment was aimed at responding to the needs of society. It was; therefore, reality that helped us understand technique. To be in tune with the meaning of technological development, it was nec- essary to have a deep understanding of humans and their needs. To paraphrase Aurélie Jean (2019), we can say: diving into the real in order to understand the technological - this was the great human emotion. The challenge was to promote a technological turnaround to make life on Earth easier. The exacerbation of this attitude brought with it disastrous consequences for the environment. Despite this, the process continued unperturbed, unchallenged. Nowadays, the concern is not so much with the techno- logical turnaround, but with the digital turnaround. More than social media (which is becoming more and more widespread across the planet), the creation of a new environment is being asserted, where human life is conditioned by the development of algorithms. In other words, digital technologies seek to con- struct the real, not understand it. Eric Sadin (2018) calls the digital administration of the world augmented humanity. For him, the emergence of a supe- rior artificial cognition is underway (2018). Previously, he had worked on artificial intelligence, searching for the anatomy of a radical anti-humanism (2016). Algorithmic life and the “silicolo- nization” of the world preceded and prepared the discussion on the digitization of the world (2015 and 2016). In the first case, he criticizes numerical reasons. In the second, he analyzes what he describes as the irresistible expansion of numerical liberalism.
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