Homuncular Flexibility: The Human Ability to Inhabit Nonhuman Avatars
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Homuncular Flexibility: The Human Ability to Inhabit Nonhuman Avatars
The program in a virtual-reality generator embodies a general, predictive theory of the behaviour of the rendered environment.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
A body—any body—will take its cues, bend the available resources, and invent its being with the matter around it.
Sara Hendren • What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Biologically speaking, the virtual-reality rendering of their environment is the characteristic means by which human beings survive.
David Deutsch • The Fabric of Reality
The final human edge is in controlling the machine or keeping your distance — in how many steps ahead, or how many steps removed, you are at any given moment. 1
Anu Atluru • MEDIA AND MACHINES.
it may be that practicing control of movement could help with control of emotion.
Todd Hargrove • A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain
this opens up the possibility for a new and mind-bending IP era of Identity Play, the ability to create works as other people in a responsible, fair and permissive IP environment,