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(comment I posted on Joshua Sparks' facebook)
"simulated realities... we could be anybody, anywhere, in any situation conceivable -- complete existential freedom" -- Josh
" I think our personal liberation lies best in a stronger relation to nature..." -- Nina
I can see virtual reality as a solution to the problem of our disconnect with nature, too. In at least two ways:
1) an integration with real nature using avatars and remote control nanobots.
2) simulations of nature inducing profound empathy
The movie Avatar? Exactly what I'm talking about. Imagine a microscopic bot you could control remotely through full immersion virtual reality. Its experience is your experience. Its actions are your actions.
Imagine infiltrating a colony of bacteria. Or an ant colony. Or your own body.
Imagine interacting with the social dynamics of pond scum. Imagine exploring the cities lichen build on rocks. Imagine feeling empathy for your skin cells. Imagine negotiating with the mold growing on your bread.
Or imagine the simulations: being a tree, being a rock, being a melting ice cube, being a molecule, being a whole planet, feeling the Earth. Simulating terminal cancer. Simulating schizophrenia. Simulating the birth and death experience. Simulating the metamorphosis of a butterfly.
WHOA O_O seriously..
What kind of empathy will the future human be capable of?
A reanalyzation of ethics and morals? Discovering ways to communicate with any form of life?
Imagine explorers of the microscopic, nanoscopic.. documenenting their experiences. All the documentaries. LMAO. "My life with the Amoebas" Imagine a whole database of the recorded subjective experiences of everything in nature (including the experience of humans experiencing simulations.. and so on.. XD)
OH and then we hook up a colony of a trillion bacteria to virtual reality simulation of a human being... oO
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My most sincere apolly-loggies for not having responded to these sooner! I've been totally side tracked with whatever it is I've been doing lately >>>.<<<;;; (among other things, recovering from ego death XD) I tried to say some stuff last night but my computer kept freezing in the most beautifully inconvenient places, lol.
+ehem+
"I desire nothing from the world; my realm begins at perception " definitely heard you say that before XD. Goes back to being totally stoic, right? It doesn't matter what the world gives you so long as you are capable of perceiving it---that's where the real excitement lies. Of course, this takes for granted the world will provide stimulus. Huh. . .is it possible for a world to exist in which no stimulus is provided? I don't think so. . .so then is it acceptable to imply the world's stimulus is being taken for granted? A while ago you told me you made yourself as bored as possible on one of your birthdays while proctoring a class (or at least I have the memory of you telling me XD I'm pretty creative--could be making everything up (oh ambiguity, take that Mr.Openended!) :P) But idk. . . it's possible the world could provide only one type of stimulus; would you tire of it? Would you ride your perception of it, watching yourself adapt and take it in with an increasing intensity? But the world we live in doesn't have only one type of stimulus (unless you're perpetually popping antidepressants I guess) so can you also take for granted the fact that it will provide stimulus? Well idk if that's necessarily true. Prisoners of war, torture victims, ect ect, show us the world can be pretty banal at times, providing minimal stimulus.
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This reminds me of what Terence McKenna was telling me yesterday---as technology advances it increasingly resembles a hallucinogen. AND I recall several mushroom accounts )sumuna. . .mosquitos?( in which the experiencer becomes absorbed in the natural world. Virtual Reality? I think you clevered a way to introduce a psychedelic experience to the nonbelievers :x LOL
I used to love being outside, what happened? I'm totally disconnected from nature. With school and work and drama I've been inside constantly. I miss looking up at the sky and laying on the grass with my friends o.o
I think virtual reality should totally be used in school. Like imagine creating a sort of mathematical synesthesia haha
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S A J J M A M F [J] 2009
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