Comments on: Neo-Positively Immersed: Virtual Worlds Give Us Back the Humanities http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/03/31/neo-positively-immersed-virtual-worlds-give-us-back-the-humanities/ Virtual worlds and creativity, business, collaboration, and identity. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:10:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joan Kremer http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/03/31/neo-positively-immersed-virtual-worlds-give-us-back-the-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-42387 Joan Kremer Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:08:36 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1204#comment-42387 Dusan, I completely agree with your point -- and I think things are going to be changing to support those of us who prefer human stories to quantitative data. Daniel Pink has a new book out ("A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future") in which he makes a compelling case that our left-brain-focused society is on the way out. That gives me hope. Great post, as always. Joan Dusan, I completely agree with your point — and I think things are going to be changing to support those of us who prefer human stories to quantitative data. Daniel Pink has a new book out (”A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”) in which he makes a compelling case that our left-brain-focused society is on the way out. That gives me hope.

Great post, as always.

Joan

]]> By: Prokofy Neva http://dusanwriter.com/index.php/2009/03/31/neo-positively-immersed-virtual-worlds-give-us-back-the-humanities/comment-page-1/#comment-41405 Prokofy Neva Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:09:11 +0000 http://dusanwriter.com/?p=1204#comment-41405 Sorry I missed these inworld discussions but they always seem to come at a time when I'm busy with RL work. I hope you will continue to push back against Robert Bloomfield. Of course, there's more than a little fraud in all of his complaints as he himself has not himself created any sort of model of the type he insists on nor engaged in any quantitative research in SL. The "happening" of Metanomics itself doesn't even qualify as qualitative research. For a good novel that helps you think through and argue against the logical positivists, who have been around for a century, read C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength. While written ages ago in the 1950s, it prefigures the Extropian/Singularity utopian ideals of uploading brains. It's a great read. Sorry I missed these inworld discussions but they always seem to come at a time when I’m busy with RL work.

I hope you will continue to push back against Robert Bloomfield. Of course, there’s more than a little fraud in all of his complaints as he himself has not himself created any sort of model of the type he insists on nor engaged in any quantitative research in SL. The “happening” of Metanomics itself doesn’t even qualify as qualitative research.

For a good novel that helps you think through and argue against the logical positivists, who have been around for a century, read C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength. While written ages ago in the 1950s, it prefigures the Extropian/Singularity utopian ideals of uploading brains. It’s a great read.

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