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We’re Longing for the One Thing the Metaverse Can’t Give Us
- wruza 5y ago“If we lose touch with ourselves,” the philosopher Richard Kearney writes, “we lose touch with the world. No tactile connection, no resonance between self and other.” I believe that the author missed some recent research. On a hi-end side there is tesla suit, on a low-end there is viro club (~nsfw) and alikes.
- h2odragon 5y agoHumans are primates. We like to groom, and be groomed. Few people fail to pet a puppy or kitten when offered the chance. Imagine we decided that water was evil, and just stopped drinking it. We'd eventually (assuming we dint die of thirst) have books and pundits talking about this mysterious inner void that everyone felt but no one could describe... While frowning at the perversion of hydrophillia.