The Virtual Mind
The Virtual Mind

Summary/Abstract: There is evidence today that humans are experiencing a different biological reality related to the new virtual environment. Anthropologists affirm that Homo sapiens has developed alongside of technologies; philosophers are trying to understand the “screen culture” and the way we’ll cope with the “haptic culture,” the culture of touch; the theorists of aesthetic objects are trying to comprehend how contemporary screen cultures affect structures of aesthetic representation and perception. Will the book survive the dispersal caused by hypertext formats and the storage and mutability of the written word in the electronic age? Will culture – as we know it – survive the shift from digital images and text to that of acoustical culture, the visual experience in the digital age? The future will possibly employ a new language for a different kind of mind, the mind of virtual reality. Such minds will not make the ones that we now employ obsolete. A new form of alliance between the non-linear mind and the new media logic will be living in the fluid of the virtual mind reality.

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