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The Archives
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11.21.07Death in Virtual Worlds: Play, Magic, Grief and the Search for MeaningLife is beautiful strange and its end is filled with mysteries, shadows and the truest knowledge of our unknowing. Dummie Beck's recent death and the feelings and responses it evoked has left me thinking, grieving (for someone I didn't know that well, even), and confused. Death in a virtual world reminds us of that beauty, that strangeness, and brings with it mysteries and loops, magic and expression, and a form of grief that carries translucency and power. It's hard to find words, but then they're always insufficient to death and dying. We cry and then try to find the words that express the ...
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11.09.07Virtual Worlds and the Strange Loop III wonder if it's possible that virtual worlds can give a platform for the recursive self? Or a more visible way of understanding what's meant by the phrase "I am a strange loop"? When Pais made his post it inspired me to bring a bunch of threads together - it didn't take long to write but they were a bunch of random thoughts that Pais helped to bring to some kind of messy riff. Having had the night to think over my initial stream of consciousness, I'm not sure whether I've simple gone loopy, or there's something worth exploring. I'm not sure ...
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