Simulacra and Simulations

Well this is deffinatly a different text from what we have been reading. I'm finding that with this text there are alot (and I mean ALOT) of words I have never seen before and do not understand at all. I have looked some up in the dictionary and that helps to a certain extent. This is deffinatly the most difficult read I think we have had this year, I think it requires us to read it not once or twice but three or four times to even begin to understand it. But anyway all that aside, I did find an interesting point in this reading. I found the discussion pertaining to someone faking a disease or sickness interesting. What I found interesting was the fact that if a person simulates the symptoms of a sickness to the point they actually appear to have the sickness then do they not actually have the sickness? If they are exhibiting symptoms is that not what determines whether they have it or not? I dont know I just found that interesting thought I'd throw it out there. Cheers.