Posts Relating To: philosophy

Maybe Second Life isn’t that far from Reality

A little while ago I stumbled across a very inter­est­ing art­icle in a philo­sophy journal. It spoke about an inter­est­ing the­ory of real­ity, and the pos­sib­il­ity that we are all actu­ally liv­ing in a sim­u­lated world.
I’ve heard about the sim­u­lated real­ity the­ory before and never really paid it much atten­tion — the idea that we’re all …

January 6, 2010 – 12:20 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts, second life | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

A Tale of Two Avatars

I’ve made no secret of the fact that my avatar, Az After­thought, was made espe­cially for my Second Life research. His pre­de­cessor, Aaron, was born some eight months earlier when a friend man­aged to con­vince me to sign up. Since cre­at­ing Az how­ever, Aaron has barely been used at all — I still login as …

December 8, 2009 – 1:23 am | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)