A.I.M. Users Bulletin Board

[Conrad]

Grabber,

After some thinking abiut the vitual things that it must be something like imagined profits as proposed in the virtual theories of Gilles De LatouretI have formulated it as follows:

Numerous investors have advanced conceptions of Virtual Shares but prominent among these in continental investing has been De Latouret, who uses virtual shares to refer to an aspect of unreal investing that is abstract, but which is nonetheless real in some way. An example of this would be the meaning, or sense, of a share, which is not a material aspect of the investment (whether it be written or spoken or imagined) but is nonetheless an attribute of that investing. De Latourets’s concept of the virtual shares has two aspects: first, we could say that the virtual share is a kind of surface effect produced by the actual causal interactions of the investor with the Stock Market, which occur at the metaphysical level. Second it creates an illusion of security that arises from the intense actualisation the virtual profits that accrues from such an investment in the transcendental sphere of the imaginary investment so that the investor actually thinks he is really creating profits, which are of course not really real.

I do however understand Imaginary Numbers much better. Take this for example:

Z=Exp(i*pi -1/i^2.3)* e^i)
Z= -4.83888511 + 5.98531348i

I know this because imaginary numbers are just as real as real numbers!