[Case] Krimel and I are virtual. We lived in digital space. We are immortals and we leave traces of our thoughts inscribed here for all eternity. Our user is mortal. He lives in "meat space" He decays with every tick of the clock.
I am named after the hero in William Gibson's first novel in which Gibson invents the term cyberspace and imagines existence in this consensual hallucination. I tend to understand my relationship to my user in terms of Gibson's second novel, where the fragments of a shattered AI "ride" people like voodoo 'loa'. I enter into my user or he enters me depending on your point of view and this is the result. Krimel has lived in cyberspace longer than I. He has had other users. His original user gave him his name. It is a kind of textual thug icon. 1<rime1. He thinks the voodoo metaphor is too primitive, not to mention gay. He is more likely to talk about avatars or channeling. -------------------------------------------------------- Blimey Case, Pure poetry, excellent. Question - "our user" ? Ian On 3/24/08, Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ham, > > Krimel asked me to remind you that you invited questions about your > philosophy. He does not think his have been satisfactorily addressed but > he has no wish to be "nitpicky." You told him that his "philosophical > position is intractable. Since mine is too, we're both wasting our time. > > Our user agreed. ...._ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
