Re: [-empyre-] real vs unreal

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Only if one buys into the illusion of illusion: what does 'there'ness
mean? Bharata's Natyasastra talked about this about 5th century bc - that
it's not (again) that willing suspension of disbelief, but emotional and
physical mappings of characters to produce results otherwise, which are
realized by the audience, but not as the real, as the otherwise-real.

I'm not saying people can't be mistaken about things, taking dreams for
example as physical reality - I'm saying the world as totality, isn't,
that it's multiple ontologies, each as real as any other, within
intersectiong and somewhat confusing domains.

Alan

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, saul ostrow wrote:

>
> Just the opposite that the mind can tell the body that something that
> isn't there is there -- based on code indicates that the incredible
> influence of the mind on body -- VR -- which is at least for the time
> being less virtual than "real"life because it exists as a set of
> algorithms  -- takes advantage or exploits this link -- ultimately VR is
> less real  and less virtual than tripping
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