{"quotes":[{"text":"We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.","author":"Russell Hoban","tags":["as-above-so-below","collective-unconscious","consciousness","fiction","macrocosm","microcosm","virtual-reality","wisdom"],"id":21843,"author_id":"Russell+Hoban"},{"text":"Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... Is the mind experiencing 'presence' in our holographic existence.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","holographic-universe","hypothetical-situation","parallel-realities","parallel-universe","parallel-universes","parallel-world","post-human","simulation","universe","virtual-reality"],"id":41410,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!","author":"Nigel Holloway","tags":["avatars","immortality","politics","religion","technology","virtual-reality"],"id":89817,"author_id":"Nigel+Holloway"},{"text":"Wisdom of the Ages: 'Virtual Reality' A fairly plausible explanation for the abundance of Virtual People running around these days.","author":"Matthew Heines","tags":["humorous","humorous","virtual-reality"],"id":91820,"author_id":"Matthew+Heines"},{"text":"VR and AR will eventually converge, and smart glasses will take over our digital interactions.","author":"Carlos López (Founder @ Oarsis)","tags":["3d","ai","ar","augmented-reality","computer-vision","technology","virtual-reality","vr"],"id":101725,"author_id":"Carlos+L%C3%B3pez+%28Founder+%40+Oarsis%29"},{"text":"A false image is, of course, a work of art, an idol. And a lie. A narcissist identifies with this image, not his true inner self. So, all he cares about is his image, not what kind of person he really is. Indeed, the latter has no real existence in his world.In identifying with his image, he's identifying with an ephemeral figment that has but virtual reality, a purely immanent existence as a reflection in the attention shone on him by others. No attention, no image. No image, no self!","author":"Kathy Krajco","tags":["attention","fantasy","image","narcissism","self","virtual-reality"],"id":181490,"author_id":"Kathy+Krajco"},{"text":"In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.","author":"Mark Cantrell","tags":["philosophy","science-fiction","virtual-reality"],"id":212855,"author_id":"Mark+Cantrell"},{"text":"Thom pulled nervously at his ‘Kings’ t-shirt. The Kings are a brutal West African gang that he follows onscreen. Such ‘tourist shows’, as I understand they are called, have become wildly popular in recent years, as global unrest makes actual travel less popular. Armoured imaging teams, using tiny remote drone cameras known as ‘flies’, take the viewer inside the violent, gang-controlled regions of Nigeria and Cameroon. Using a touch screen, viewers (or ‘zoners’ as they are sometimes called) can follow the action from multiple angles while cheering on their favourite gang.","author":"Paul Christensen","tags":["africa","gangs","reality-tv","satire","virtual-reality"],"id":242985,"author_id":"Paul+Christensen"},{"text":"Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.","author":"Jonathan Gottschall","tags":["fiction","gaming","stories","virtual-reality"],"id":330430,"author_id":"Jonathan+Gottschall"},{"text":"Until now psychologists only factored in emotional and physical gratification while studying subjects, but believe me I'm coining a new term: VIRTUAL GRATIFICATION, which will become a new form of craving in near future. Watch On!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["psychoanalysis","psychology","psychotherapy","science","virtual-reality"],"id":343461,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}