The Technium: As If - 1 views
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Kenyth Zeng on 06 Jun 09中文翻译: http://www.yeeyan.com/articles/view/guance/24389
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Mythbusters
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Computer viruses replicated, adapt, infiltrate, and spread in patterns nearly identical to biological viruses
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when the boy could earn the love of a mother.
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Metaphors become real when we act as if they are real – whether or not we intellectually "believe" they are real.
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But is simulated sex real? Is the metaphoric rape of one artificial avatar by another avatar in a virtual world, virtual or real? Is it a real assault, a real crime? This was the famous question posed by a real legal case about an online game.
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We are heading into a domain where we create things "as if" they are something else, in imitation of them. Then we improve and deepen the fake with layers of more "as if" until it actually become something else. Our creations go from "as if" to "is."
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adding more layers of meaning and realism, until metaphor slowly passes whatever invisible barrier lies between the real and fake
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One of the ways we will know when a thing has passed from "as-if to is" is when it earns unalloyed love from humans.