so once again…
we go back to asking what is “real” what makes something “real” and what is “virtual” and how do these two terms travel through time and context and acquire meaning based on values and social philosophies embedded in everyday living and meaning making….
I know you’ll take this well meaningly, but this is the silliest issue. How can anyone not realize that since reality is socially constructed and created through language(s) that it is itself a virtual (mediated by language) environment. At best can can fall it Vprime vs Vonline. We know that memories are even reconstructed, and are hence not real. Real is something that exists outside of the mediating influence of language and culture.
I do like the notion of mixed-reality though. It all gets twisty inside!
jason
8 Sep 08 at 8:39 am