And why on earth would this make us feel guilty in any case? We no longer
believe in the electron as a point-particle, etc. - should this also make
us feel guilty?
This sounds like a return to Freud's Civilization and its Discontents,
basing everything on guilt; I just don't buy into it.
Certainly the computer affects our perceptions in numerous ways, but again
I'd urge us to look at specific protocols, applications, etc., before we
re-emerge with another kind of absolute, i.e whatever cyberspace is suppo-
sed to be.
Alan
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Viktor A.Mazin wrote:
>
> If we lose an innocent picture of the absolute space
> and the absolute time in the techno-logical fields
> (the relativity both of them was demonstrated on the various
> examples by the participants of this discussion) does it mean that we feel
> guilty for the lost completness of our perception? It seems like
> the virtual computer space which introduce itself in between
> actual spaces and fantasmatic spaces should rearrange basic structures
> of the human psyche including his drives, and particularly
> the feeling of guilty. For instance, the feeling of guilty might be
> intensified being affected by the splitted and multistructured space and
> time.
>
> Olessia Tourkina, Viktor Mazin
>
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