Get real : a philosophical adventure in virtual reality / Philip Zhai.
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. How to Go "behind" Physical Space
- 1.1. Playing the Game: Get Wired to Go Weird
- 1.2. What If Now.
- 1.3. Cross-Communication Situations
- 1.4. Interpersonal-Telepresence: I Am Here!
- 1.5. The Community of Interpersonal-Telepresence
- 1.6. The Principle of Reciprocity
- 2. The Causal and the Digital under the Virtual
- 2.1. The Four Sources of Virtual Reality Input
- 2.2. Manipulation of the Physical Process from Cyberspace
- 2.3. Cybersex and Reproduction
- 2.4. The Expansion beyond Necessity
- 2.5. Interaction among Participants
- 2.6. The Final Decision That Is Irreversible: Alert!
- 3. The Parallelism between the Virtual and the Actual
- 3.1. Deconstructing Rules for the "Real" and the "Illusory"
- 3.2. Communicative Rationality as the Final Rule
- 3.3. How Phenomenological Descriptions Are the Same Throughout
- 3.4. Fundamental Philosophical Questions Remain
- 4. All Are Optional Except the Mind
- 4.1. John Searle's False Notion of Body Image in the Brain
- 4.2. The Fallacy of Unity Projection
- 4.3. The One-ness of Consciousness, Brain, and Quantum Mechanics
- 4.4. A Conjecture: The Square Root of -1 as the Psy-Factor
- 5. The Meaning of Life and Virtual Reality
- 5.1. Recapitulation and Anticipation
- 5.2. Meaning as Different from Happiness: Brave New World?
- 5.3. Meaning and the Creator
- 5.4. Significant Difference versus Real Difference
- 5.5. Three Modes of Subjectivity and Intentionality
- 5.6. Meaning, Ideality, and Humanitude
- 5.7. Virtual Reality: The Way Home
- 6. VR and the Destiny of Humankind
- 6.1. The Fragility of Technological Civilization
- 6.2. The Question of Death
- 6.3. Transcendence of Personhood and Immortality
- 6.4. What Could Happen Soon
- 6.5. Virtual Reality and the Ontological Re-Creation
- App. Jaron Lanier's Virtual Reality Debut Interview
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.