tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post1902385814051267958..comments2011-05-23T21:46:55.133+02:00Comments on The Second Lifer: AugmentationismWolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00232553962808209828noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-1840166519620488282010-06-05T03:43:37.053+02:002010-06-05T03:43:37.053+02:00There is a postgrad dissertation waiting to be wri...There is a postgrad dissertation waiting to be written about our [species] propensity to see life in binary absolutes.Wolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00232553962808209828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-16850099273031303812010-06-04T17:23:14.137+02:002010-06-04T17:23:14.137+02:00Ah yes of course. Thank you for the clarification ...Ah yes of course. Thank you for the clarification (and fast response, I was only just coming back to enable email subscription and here your answer is already :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-56910926514144141092010-06-04T17:20:05.643+02:002010-06-04T17:20:05.643+02:00@Fael: I believe that all of us do both at the sam...@Fael: I believe that all of us do both at the same time, in a blend which depends on the moment.<br /><br />The problem with all such categorizations is: no matter how much those who coin them caution that they are the extreme ends of a continuum, they still tend to be taken by later readers as "either/or".<br /><br />As I said in my own blog on the subject: If one were red, and the Lalo Tellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-8170974110033012882010-06-04T17:08:39.678+02:002010-06-04T17:08:39.678+02:00About Lalo's aphorism, quoting it here:
"...About Lalo's aphorism, quoting it here:<br />"Immersionists" play in SL, as in a playground; "Augmentationists" play with SL, as if it were a toy.<br /><br />I feel like I do both of those at the same time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-34076147299239967912010-05-31T00:10:20.802+02:002010-05-31T00:10:20.802+02:00My SL is very real to me, Anon. You are far from b...My SL is very real to me, Anon. You are far from being alone in that.Wolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00232553962808209828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-15222802937257982622010-05-30T20:04:37.346+02:002010-05-30T20:04:37.346+02:00Anonymous, that would be quite a few of us :)Anonymous, that would be quite a few of us :)Lalo Tellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-44578845102027700372010-05-30T19:45:20.855+02:002010-05-30T19:45:20.855+02:00Is there room somewhere for someone who believes t...Is there room somewhere for someone who believes that what happens in SL is part of real life?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-9782855537511205182010-05-16T01:57:08.436+02:002010-05-16T01:57:08.436+02:00OMG, I'm an immersionist, call the SL police!!...OMG, I'm an immersionist, call the SL police!!! :)Agatha Macbethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01597211210536639315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-33479480031483256292010-05-15T21:08:43.176+02:002010-05-15T21:08:43.176+02:00Permission granted :)
And thanks in return for r...Permission granted :)<br /><br />And thanks in return for reading and commenting on "Synthesis".Lalo Tellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-58891348422127033042010-05-15T17:13:49.706+02:002010-05-15T17:13:49.706+02:00Oh, I do like that aphorism, that sums it up very ...Oh, I do like that aphorism, that sums it up very well. Mind if I use it? (with attribution, of course :) <br /><br />Thanks for the compliment, and the greater compliment of following my blog.<br /><br />Note to self: I need to talk about play as a concept in SL.Wolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00232553962808209828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552124701789971295.post-17891419079684966992010-05-14T18:08:50.080+02:002010-05-14T18:08:50.080+02:00It's ironic that, in the years since Bennetsen...It's ironic that, in the years since Bennetsen <a href="http://slcreativity.org/wiki/index.php?title=Augmentation_vs_Immersion" rel="nofollow">first published</a> the "immersionist/augmentationist" paradigm, other people have had an easier time defining augmentationism than the man who coined the term. Yours, above, is the best I've seen so far.<br /><br />I mused on the topic Lalo Tellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07711076861284942835noreply@blogger.com