From: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman)
Subject: Re: PHIL: Escape into the artificial world (Was Re: SOC: Social
Date: 22 Mar 92 21:09:04 GMT
Organization: The Tower of Zot - (716)838-0220



bew@brahms.udel.edu (Ben Williams) writes:

> Virtual Reality is the latest attempt of Western White man to turn away from
> the natural world into an artificial one, since he can't hack it with the
> former.  HE has lost it and he is totally lost...

western white man?  Where do poeple get such VAIN philosophies!
This is like saying "White men are scum" in different words.
It PRE JUDGED also called predjudice.  

What I see VR is a vehicle to test the normally untestable.  
Simulate a stiuation instead of risking lives. 
VR can perform balistic testing without using animals.

Many things can be done with VR.  To say that it is someone ESCAPE from 
reality is petty.  Perhaps SOME will use it to escape.   

The question here is one of the HUMAN race though not "white" poeple.
As a indian put it "I am a person with a red skin" no difference except 
appearances.  Let's leave it at that.  

Cyberman

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