We survive in a world going round with several technological upgrades each second, every day. And these technologies are engines of heart driven empathy. Movies, certainly are the pinnacle, the Zeus of communication. Technology now gives you the freedom to experience the world from another’s POV.
Ultimately at its best, helping as an accelerator for you to be more futuristic, more real, more zealed and empathic downwards the humanity. Elevating hopes for the future, there’s so much to talk now, about Virtual Reality.
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive came up with the first Virtual Reality devices and have finally captured the imagination of the commons. It has become real, the concept of fully immersive tech-mediated dream worlds, fully rendered mind spaces, where you literally live in another world. Portals to another curated worlds. These are not virtual realities. I guess, these are more real than we can experience.
What is this ultimately all about? Well Terence McKenna says these technologies will allow us to share our dreams with one another. Each one will have hands on, a cosmos of imagination, where one can construct temples, gardens and homes of the mind.
Consider the intimacy that becomes reality, when friends and family come together and ask, “Hey, do you want to see my world. Do you want to experience, what it’s actually like to be inside my brain? What kind of intimacy? It’s like turning ourselves into something else. Terence McKenna visualised this with an octopus. This is what becomes possible. The octopus transfigurates to camouflage with its environment. It literally wears this linguistic outfit outside its skin. It wears its mind, its nervous system, outside its skin.
Its way of communicating is a nature’s intelligible act to behold. Language becomes a thing, which can be visually spectated. Us–humans comprise millions of stuffings. Grunts and voices; funny-faces to try to absorb, to read what one-another is thinking and feeling.
Think, if with virtual reality we all become like octopuses and wear our brain and consciousness, outside–our skin. Imagine the intimacy that becomes real. This is really what gives me goosies, about virtual reality, about these sacred modes of intimacy replacing shared inter-subjectivity that become a real thought.
Like always, this fascinates me!
