[-empyre-] Biodimensionality

[Scott Johnson <shogunx@operamail.com>]

Evening all,


or those
>mechanisms that give meaning to the weave on our various looms, I started
>reading 'bidimensionality' in my head as biodimensionality. This word it
>seemed, sounded better in my mind - a rhythm existed that was missing in
>biodimensionality.

I think biodimensionality and a dichomatic response emerges from my mind... a 
parallel between digital and atomic realities.
On one side of the coin, there is the depth (...and width, and height, if you 
want to stretch the analogy) of a living things being,
both in physical regard and metaphysical.  Do the tendrils of a persons 
existence continue to grow after his or her passing, as the change they effect 
radiates across society, growing like a root on a tree.  Does this give us a 
another facet to measure on the gem of personal existence.
If we take it further and apply this concept to all living things, does this 
not alter our perspectives 
about the world around us.  Across the mirror to the digital side... 
we can view this term as a method to quantify the representation of a living
being in digital space... projected through an avatar is shared three 
dimensional virtual spaces, and how realistic
the entity appears to others in that space.  There are several popular games
for gaming consoles that allow intricate and sophisticated design of
avatars (characters, vehicles, whatever...) as part of gameplay.  These could 
be said to have high biodimensionality.
Unfortunately, there are limitations inherent in that medium.  Often they are 
not
shared three dimensional spaces, but isolated ones, that exist only as ROM 
burned onto 
disc, thereby limited by the atoms that contain them.  Also, the person 
sitting at the 
gaming console is limited creatively by the predefined parameters written into 
the code of the game...
having no access to the original code to modify.  Luckily, this is not our 
situation:)
As related to internet based shared virtual environments, one could refer to a 
well designed avatar, with lifelike movements, highly bidimensional.
In an empyrical sense of the word, of course:)
Scott

Everyday I sit and watch the data flow by like a river in a canyon,
sometimes I toss in a rock or two and watch the beautiful 
concentric ripples expand, and other times I go fishing.