From: jwtlai@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jim W Lai)
Subject: Re: Danger of Immersive VR (Was Re: Any report on Bay area SIGGRAPH
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1991 02:37:43 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.023743.27493@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo



In article <1991Jun4.184740.9119@milton.u.washington.edu> shebs@Apple.COM (Stan Shebs) writes:

>The evidence so far seems to be that our brains aren't particular about
>where the stimuli come from, and that synthetic is just fine.  Seems to me 
>it's only been our bodies that have saved the race from our brains'
>survival-threatening obsessions with religion (think of medieval hermits),
>drugs, war, ideology, etc.  Perhaps this is how we'll survive the dangers
>of VR as well.

Or maybe VR will turn out to be a new selection mechanism for humanity,
as the wireheads who "lose it" are weeded out.  Considering how many
people today are already self-deluding without VR, this may not be a
bad thing.  There, now that's morbid.