Comments on: An exploration of physicalism http://gorm.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/an-exploration-of-physicalism/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:51:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Gorm http://gorm.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/an-exploration-of-physicalism/#comment-446 Gorm Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:33:27 +0000 http://gorm.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/an-exploration-of-physicalism/#comment-446 Supposing the impossible, that Ludlow and Torrone actually had my idiosyncratic use of the concepts 'reality' and 'virtuality' in mind when they did this event, how does it challenge "the comfortable if flawed distinction between the real world and virtual reality"? Supposing they <i>didnt</i> have me in mind, what are you getting at? Supposing the impossible, that Ludlow and Torrone actually had my idiosyncratic use of the concepts ‘reality’ and ‘virtuality’ in mind when they did this event, how does it challenge “the comfortable if flawed distinction between the real world and virtual reality”?

Supposing they didnt have me in mind, what are you getting at?

]]> By: Rolf http://gorm.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/an-exploration-of-physicalism/#comment-444 Rolf Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:40:02 +0000 http://gorm.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/an-exploration-of-physicalism/#comment-444 Reversal of evolution: The physicalization of the virtual sphere in playful stupidity, or: to reenact a virtual entity in a physical duplication. "At South By Southwest 2006 in Austin Texas, Make editor, Phillip Torrone, reprogrammed a Roomba robatic vacuum cleaner to be remotely directed, dressed it in a green frog suit, and played "real frogger" on 6th Street in Austin, Texas. Ludlow has described the events as attempts to subvert the comfortable if flawed distinction between the real world and virtual reality, as well as challenges to suburban conceptions of street decorum in the contemporary United States." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ludlow Reversal of evolution: The physicalization of the virtual sphere in playful stupidity, or: to reenact a virtual entity in a physical duplication.

“At South By Southwest 2006 in Austin Texas, Make editor, Phillip Torrone, reprogrammed a Roomba robatic vacuum cleaner to be remotely directed, dressed it in a green frog suit, and played “real frogger” on 6th Street in Austin, Texas. Ludlow has described the events as attempts to subvert the comfortable if flawed distinction between the real world and virtual reality, as well as challenges to suburban conceptions of street decorum in the contemporary United States.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ludlow

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