Friday, December 22, 2006

An RL Perception thru Avatar Senses?

My last post was almost a month ago and would you believe, it is not because RL had kept me busy. In fact, my immersion with Second Life has prevented me from posting - in a good way, of course.

I will not go into the details of this past month's events, but I will provide short 'snippets' of the month's exploration, 'self' learning, avatar/human behaviour and the likes.

Alt Av's:
My avatars have taken on a second life of their own. Truly they have. I still cannot explain why this is so, in an intelligent thoughtful way (not yet) but I will take an intelligent guess.

In a three dimensional world such as RL we perceive life thru our five senses, some six and others more. But this perception, no matter how 'global' the scope of brain faculty usage, will always be 'linear' in this three dimensional plane. So, we act on this plane and become aware in this plane (unless you astral project or have learned to let go of your ego's).

In SL, a metaverse, our avatar perceptions are not linear. We fly, we teleport, we use camera view. We observe more of that world in one moment thru our RL eyes. This changes everything. Which brings to mind my obsession with, if this is so, then why do we still communicate using 'chat speak' and not have our thoughts flow fluently?
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Okay, I already know the answer.
It is a physical technicality. We have to spend energy on typing. Damn!

I am guessing at this time, that my alt av's have different personalities mainly because of their physical appearance and how our RL eyes assimilate that experience. As well, there is an obvious subconscious reason as to why we choose the way our avatars look. Couple that with the broader scope of perception in SL, perhaps the facets of our personality can easily flow into one avatar and other facets into the other. I dunno. Just a damn guess.