meganmayMon, Aug 4, 2008 Your comment about Second Life makes me think, not that history repeats itself, because that cliche has always irritated me a great deal, though I'm sure your making of this point will be be expanded upon in part II, but instead that perhaps something more fundamental needs to change about the human mind before we move beyond the predictable reconstruction of familiar concepts. We've undergone a digital revolution that introduces the opportunity for us to depart from our recognizable physical and mental realities, but somehow the mental constructs necessary for us to operate in the physical world have taken precedence because it's nearly impossible to establish a feedback relationship in a void. How do we initiate feedback relationships that move beyond the established way of things? Well i suppose that's what we're doing here.
Your comment about Second Life makes me think, not that history repeats itself, because that cliche has always irritated me a great deal, though I'm sure your making of this point will be be expanded upon in part II, but instead that perhaps something more fundamental needs to change about the human mind before we move beyond the predictable reconstruction of familiar concepts. We've undergone a digital revolution that introduces the opportunity for us to depart from our recognizable physical and mental realities, but somehow the mental constructs necessary for us to operate in the physical world have taken precedence because it's nearly impossible to establish a feedback relationship in a void. How do we initiate feedback relationships that move beyond the established way of things? Well i suppose that's what we're doing here.