Archive for 'Philosophical Issues'
Op/Ed: Avatars Have No Feelings
by FoxM Ember
Is love an emotion or is it a choice? If actions speak louder than words, then an act of love towards someone is profoundly louder than simply uttering those three little words. So, is love here in SL a feeling or an action, a noun or a verb? Although [...]
It Has To Be Said: Stop Calling it a Game
by Jessica Holyoke
Second Life is like the Internet in many respects; its on the computer, no one knows that you are a fairy tale blind mouse and there is a heavy text and graphical basis for our interactions. And it looks like a video game; you can fly, you can be in space, you can [...]
A Techno-Communist Manifesto
Autonomous chicken-collective lags Linden lackey Neva
by Pappy Enoch, Techno-Revolutionist
I salute all working avatars of the fake worlds!
A specter is haunting Second Life – the specter of Prokofy Neva. Yes, I mean the same avatar who claims to defy the cabal of Linden plutocrats by being an anti-collectivist “free-market capitalist.”
I laugh in the [...]
Saving Time in a Virtual Bottle
How is your time in Second Life best spent?
by FoxM Ember
What is time? “Time,” measured in minutes and hours, days and weeks – even here in SL. Is it simply an awareness of events and occurrences sorted in our minds in such a way, as to allow us to perceive them in an ordered, [...]
How The Simulacrum Killed Carmen Hermosillo
The first to warn are the first affected
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk
In H+ magazine's A Virtual Life. An Actual Death Mark Stephen Meadows and Peter Ludlow make a compelling case that Carmen Hermosillo’s real life death last year was most likely the sort of suicide Carmen had warned against when she wrote in [...]
Eye of the Beholder
by Jessica Holyoke
Perception is reality. Its a phrase I learned when I held a supervisory position for a large multi-national before I went to law school. For some readers, this might be a surprise because my work experience would make me older than it would seem by my avatar and my previous statements. Most people [...]
But Does That Make Me Gay?
by Lapis Philosophorum
Reading "The Wanderer's" Gor series, there is an overarching concept that truly bothers me. The Wanderer writes that he will not besexually using or abusing the female slaves of Gor because it is morethan likely that there could be some gay guy fapping in the background — an all too common concern for [...]
The Philosophical Parrot Of Socrates Cafe
Authentic dialogue in a synthetic world
by Alessandra Narayan
Tired of contests, free sex, acoustic live music, poor roleplay… one of those days or nights when everything seems to go wrong? Ok, there might be a solution if you’re into philosophy. Check out Socrates Cafe and you might end up in an intense debate that will keep [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Finding Real People in Second Life
by Jessica Holyoke
A complaint I have heard from the 'Get A Life' crowd is that the people you meet on Second Life aren't real. Because you may never have seen a photo or know their name, they don't count. I once mentioned to a close friend of mine the snow storm another friend of mine suffered [...]
Remembering Carmen Hermosillo
The Herald is sorry to report that Carmen Hermosillo (aka humdog, aka Montserrat Tovar, aka Montserrat Snakeankle, aka Sparrowhawk Perhaps) has died irl. Below the fold are my memories of Carmen, starting from when I met her on the WELL back in 1993. Others of you will have very different memories of her [...]
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