[-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose "our systems"

[John Hopkins]

> that's not what quantum mechanics says.

Yes, of course, that's right Alan, QM doesn't really 'say' anything in textual 
English except in excruciatingly poor translation from the 'actual' mathematical 
model. I only use QM as a short-hand for a world-view that is acceptable in the 
West but is not so bound by conventional Newtonian models for the cosmos.

I do feel, though, words like 'interaction' and 'virtual' hardly have any 
intelligible relation to the nature of any shared reality, given their social 
usage within the techno-sphere, even in the art/new media scene. It'd be nice to 
simply side-step them by using a more 'long-hand' description that at least 
tries to parse the writer's experience (you've done that numerous times over the 
last couple decades!)...

jh
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Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
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