Second life 2019

Hey guys, hope you're all well. I've been under the weather this week, believe it or not vampires can get colds too! Being bed bound however I have been doing some interesting research into various topics and found our theme for class to be a good way to spend some time researching. So this week we had some really interesting topics raised that revolved around consciousness and the self. I would like to focus primarily on two men who discuss these topics very articulately and raised some interesting points. The first is David Chalmers, an Australian philosopher who's tedTalk proposed various existing, theoretical ideas on consciousness.  He began by stating; without consciousness nothing in our lives would have meaning or value. This I know to be true from a first person perspective but I don't know how effectively it leads into the rest of his speech which is much broader than that. He states that consciousness is an anomaly we need to fit into our world view. ...

Week Five Hi all, welcome back! This week we had a really interesting discussion of Marshall Macluhan's work. He was a Canadian philosopher who had a strong ontological understanding of how mans creations have shaped man. He is quoted a saying'We shape our tools and in turn our tools shape us'. This is a very interesting topic to me as we now exist in a society that funds itself by creating ever new products to sell, often with no longevity or need apart from their ability to make money. Another phrase Macluhan is noted for coining  is 'The medium is the message'. This is a deliberately paradoxical statement meaning what has been communicated throughout history has been less important than the medium used to communicate it.  For example, Macluhan believed the print culture puts an emphasis on the visual whereas in oral tradition of communication placed emphasis on the ear. This was something we discussed in class and found that it is easier perhaps to ...

Hello to anyone reading! Exciting thoughts about what this module is turning out to be. As you may or may not know I have been assigned a brief and group in a module as part of college course in which we meet weekly on the program Second Life. I have been investigating the dichotomy of this online platform with our present advancement towards automation. We are set weekly readings and tasks to encourage us to investigate this platform as well as the topics raised in class.  I'm going to try to utilise this particular blog post to formulate my thoughts in order to bring a clear and concise set of aims and ideas to the group I have been assigned for this project (as of yet, I have not been able to secure them for a meeting, it seems everyone has had hectic schedules this past week so hopefully over the course of the next one we can build momentum and excitement about the project to encourage participation. One of the things that stuck with me from last weeks readings on building a...