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You see, I have always found it difficult to understand that in fact one can only be oneself. Who else could you be? Changeability and hypocrisy and performance are parts of who we are. And what is empirical reality, anyway?

The purpose of a digital virtual world is to efficiently and reliably create valuable experiences for its participants with greater consistency and fidelity than ever before.

The optimal experience, then, is both fulfilling and useful: one that provides intrinsic satisfaction while also catalyzing personal growth and productive change.

In a sense, a transporting experience is a form of communion with another world.

There is ample scientific evidence to show us that the most fulfilling lives are the ones that maximize feelings of autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

My most basic definition of a metaverse is a conversation, a structure of multiple worlds that permits value exchange between them.

We have always wanted to see, feel, and understand more than we do, and in pursuit of these goals we have consistently tried to transcend the limits imposed on us by biology and geology, and extend ourselves into potential worlds mediated only by our minds.

Creating models of reality is an essential part of high-level thinking. In order to survive and operate effectively in the world, we must be able to simplify and experiment with outcomes as we plan or make decisions. In so doing, we create and evolve worlds of ideas that exist apart from and in conversation with the embodied world. This process is

the assumption of mechanistic causality is utterly at peace with the existential blindness that allows for responsibility, for freedom.