A question has been asked about whether I consider the cyberspace limited…An easy question and I just happened to know the answer – or so I thought before sitting down to compose the reply…But, as this happened many times before, my thoughts got pulled away in the quest of researching the issue and we all know how easy what seemed to be right might turn round to be wrong and turn round back to right again...and then again...
Being in a philosophical mode, as I am today, my reply would be:
Cyberspace is limitless in its function as extension of human’s mind
And cyberspace is limited by the sensory limitations of human’s anatomy and computer’s hardware.
We can call virtual reality “artificial illusion”, disconnected from the real world, but we can also see it as an “additional dimension” added to our experience. Life on line is an alternative view of the individual's subjective reality. And in this regard, the boundaries really would be only the ones, you have inside yourself. How far you can leap across the wires, float, bounce, how loud you can shout or how deep you can dive? Does your consciousness have restrictions in gravity, in “general” laws of physics? Is time relevant to it? Of course the cyberspace is limitless. It is how far you can walk in there, where you will see the edge of it.
The great Zen master Chuang Tzu dreamt that he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he asked himself, "Am I a man who just dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?"
The question here: how deep you can live into cyberspace?
Being in a philosophical mode, as I am today, my reply would be:
Cyberspace is limitless in its function as extension of human’s mind
And cyberspace is limited by the sensory limitations of human’s anatomy and computer’s hardware.
We can call virtual reality “artificial illusion”, disconnected from the real world, but we can also see it as an “additional dimension” added to our experience. Life on line is an alternative view of the individual's subjective reality. And in this regard, the boundaries really would be only the ones, you have inside yourself. How far you can leap across the wires, float, bounce, how loud you can shout or how deep you can dive? Does your consciousness have restrictions in gravity, in “general” laws of physics? Is time relevant to it? Of course the cyberspace is limitless. It is how far you can walk in there, where you will see the edge of it.
The great Zen master Chuang Tzu dreamt that he was a butterfly. When he awoke, he asked himself, "Am I a man who just dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?"
The question here: how deep you can live into cyberspace?