With VR your 'ordinary senses' are still functional and still sending signals
to the brain—hence "simulator sickness" when your inner ears disagree with your
eyes. Also, the fact that your brain still has access to "normal" data, it
tends to interpolate and interpret the sensory data from the
I am so confused. What's going on with monkeypox. I thought it was all but
eradicated by the 80s. I am also having covid vibes,and my heckles and
sneckles and all that stuff are going: you have to kidding me! Yet another
epidemic forming, and disturbingly lax response. I don't say call red alert
I read “The Starship and the Canoe” quite a long time ago, and I
read a book (Baidarka) by George Dyson shortly after we moved to Seattle
in 1988.
I met him many years later. The director of the Institute for Advanced
Study was visiting Seattle, and there was a get-together at Charles
Here's the SMMRY if anyone's troubled by a paywall:
https://smmry.com/https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/#_LENGTH=7
wrote:
She adds, "There's definitely differences between what a psychedelic experience
feels like and what virtual
Speaking of Starships, really have to wonder about NASA spending on SLS when
this is possible.
https://hackaday.com/2022/08/05/bps-space-succesfully-lands-a-model-rocket/
On Aug 7, 2022, at 11:53 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
One reason why I like the FRIAM group: you stumble accidentally on a
Roger,
Many years ago, during my very brief weedy period, I was with a group of people
who wanted to smoke pot, but had none. I suggest that we “enact” it: i.e., do
everything we would do if we had pot, but without the pot. You know, the
passing of the toke, the avoidance of burning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940
This must be on some topic around here.
Originally picked up from
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/,
which is paywalled.
The original arxiv posting is 20 years old, but the work was just published
