"So if I'm running around or flying around or sexing around in a virtual world, my brain still ultimately reads that as real. Media is real. It ultimately says that you're living this experience that you're viewing."
A story this week by Eric Molinsky from WNYC's Studio 360 discusses the nature of avatars and the mind/body questions they play around with. How do we represent ourselves online and how do we control that image? It's a pretty short report, but it enouraged me to re-examine the contradiction between our desire and interest in worlds online and the very constrained physical mode of interaction, screens and keyboards, that we have to use to participate in that world.
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