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Sabine Reljic / Willow Shenlin

If Second Life as a presence machine is to the mind what cyclotrons are to Physics, then...

.....then, we discover traces of patterns that give us an insight into how our mind communicate.

Finish the sentence with your own thought(s). Looking forward to some brilliant nuggets.

(a big thanks to F. Biocca (2003) for the brilliant analogy "presence machine = cyclotrons of the mind?")

Tags: cyclotrons, life, machine, physics, presence, second

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...then, we can analyze traces of patterns (presence) in more discriminating fashion.

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...it may take years to decipher the data, and even longer to fully realize its value as a tool.

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LOL....indeed. What about the presence-related date only?

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... then distance between individuals becomes smaller.

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....Bricken was right when he proclaimed that "Psychology was the physics of virtual reality."

source: Barlow, J., Dyson, E., Leary, T., Bricken, W., Robinett, W., and Lanier, J. (1990). Hip, hype and hope --the three faces of virtual worlds (panel session). International conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques. ACM SIGGRAPH 90 Panel Proceedings, Dallas, Texas. pp. 1001-1029.

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