Seminars in Experiential Cyber Psychology: Second Life and Time Compression
These seminars explore basic elements of the psychology of SL and invite sharing of your experiences or expectations. This seminar examines how rapidly things can happen in SL, and how much living we can fit in here. We will meet at Delphi, at the Grove Discussion area on 7 October at 04:00 PDT / 12:00 GMT. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Open%20Habitat/187/185/41
Self-Awareness and Social Support
Delphi discussion on social support and Second Life. Take the assessment at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Open%20Habitat/207/236/34 and then come to discussion on 4 October at 16:30 PDT to discuss your First Life support network, your Second Life support network, and how they are different. Moderated by Reflection Freenote at the grove discussion area.
Seminars in Experiential Cyber Psychology: Anonymity
These seminars explore basic elements of the psychology of Second Life and invite sharing of your experiences or expectations. This seminar will be about the role of anonymity in facilitating explorations in personality and self.
We will meet at Delphi, at the Grove Discussion area on 30 September at 04: 00 AM PDT (12:00 GMT).
Reflection Freenote
Pseudonymously authored by Marsilio Gagliano (Aka, KMS) for Marsilio’s Reading Group, Open Habitat Project, Second Life © 2009 [Meeting Sunday, 16 August 2009) @ The Open Habitat Sim.
INTRODUCTION
I have written the following little essay to aid us in discussing together a reading graciously provided by Daniel Dennett entitled “Intentional Systems Theory” (2009) available at the Tuft University Website in pdf format.
Follow this link: http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/intentionalsystems.pdf
Our previous discussions of Nagel’s “What it is like to be a Bat?” and Whitehead’s “Nature Lifeless” went very well, but you may have noticed from the transcripts that our discussions departed rather rapidly from a consideration of the texts themselves. One of the useful features of a reading group, in contrast to other sorts of discussion groups, is that reading groups owe consideration of the texts themselves. So, I wanted to delay our departure from Dennett’s text by what may at first appear to be an odd means – by attacking it. Based on what I hope is a careful and accurate consideration of Dennett’s thesis in sections I and II of the following essay, I argue, in sections II and IV, that Daniel Dennett is an ironic metaphysical chicken, a cowardly beast whose theory of intentional systems theory is logically consistent but incomplete. My argument can be summarized in four steps: Read the rest of this entry »
Self Awareness and Habits:
Real Life Roboticism vs Second Life Cyborg Liberation. Join us for discussion of how RL turns us into machines, and how SL liberates the human within. Moderated by Reflection Freenote at Open Habitat on Sunday, 9 August at 16:30 PDT (00:30 GMT).
Exclusive Screening of Skeptic Magazine’s James Randi Interview
The Skeptic Magazine and the Open Habitat project invite you to an exclusive Second Life premier screening of The Skeptic Magazine interview with James Randi on 01 August at 13:00 PDT (21:00 GMT)
Filmed on 20th April 2008, the day after his presentation to a sell-out, 500-strong audience for the Evening with James Randi and Friends, this footage was filmed exclusively for The Skeptic Magazine.
The link below will take you to a teaser of the full 52 minute interview, which will be released to coincide with the re-launch issue of The Skeptic Magazine in early August – we are also streaming this teaser in world at Open Habitat, so drop by anytime.
The video is a 2 minute snippet from the start of an interview with James Randi, a long-standing supporter of the magazine and of scepticism in the UK generally, so it seems only fitting to re-launch Britain’s foremost and longest-running sceptical magazine alongside this interview. Randi also conducted an interview for the first ever issue of the magazine, back in 1987.
Hope to see you there!
Trailer Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bbAyaLq4mQ
Tags: James Randi, Skepticism
Delphi Discussion on Self Awareness & Perceptual Illusions.
Most of our orbs have psychological tests. A new one examines perceptual illusions that all of us experience everyday. As an aspect of self-awareness, explore optical illusions as a metaphor for broader illusions of perception, belief and memory.
Join us for a quick start discussion about optical and other illusions of perception on 24 July 2009 at 6PM PDT and on Sunday 26 July 2009 at 6pm for a full discussion.
Moderated by Reflection Freenote at discussion area:
In this note I describe the phenomenon, and list some of the questions we can take up.
Mental states, such as belief, are said to be ‘intentional’. That is, they are “of” or “about” or “directed upon” some object or objects. For example, Fred’s belief that spiders make fine pets is (on the face of it) about spiders. Alice’s belief that Fred should return Alice’s stockings is (apparently) about Fred and a pair of stockings. When someone believes something or hopes or fears or desires something, she represents objects in a certain way, as having certain characteristics. Intentional objects are represented objects.
