Farbror IB gick på seminariet om tidskomprimering i SL

Welcome to Seminars in Experiential Cyber Psychology
I am Reflection Freenote and I will be leading our seminar this morning (my time).
We archive our seminars so advise me if you would like your identity shrouded more than your avatar allows.
I will request that you treat me and other disscussants with decency and human respect.
I will begin our seminar with some prepared remarks, and then invite open discussion of the topic as this relates to your experience of life in SL.
Seminars in Experiential Cyber Psychology: SL and Time compression
In the metaverse generally and in SL specifically we are presented with a neurologicalinterface which engages the subconscious dimensions of our emotional responses.
We have subconscious tendencies to respond to the “person” of an avatar in the way that we do to a person in RL, and this is the subconscious process that sculpture as an art form engages.
We have a subconscious tendency to respond to the geography and the buildings and places of a sim, the way that we respond to such things in RL, and this is the subconscious process that landscape painting as an art form engages.
In having this subconscious engagement with the “world” of SL, we are able to engage enormously “realistic” emotional responses to our own behavior and interactions in this world, as compared to a “chat room” for example.
Time compression refers to the variable nature of our subjective experience of the passage of time, and in regard to SL has to do with the amazing amount of “living” which can be compressed in a unit of time here.
This happens for at least two reasons which I will review with you today, and you may be able to add other ideas to this.
First, and most concretely, FL, first life, is logistically very time consuming as
compared to SL.
That is, if I want to participate in a group like this, I first have to get a shower, put on clothes, get in my car, drive to where the group is, have the group, and then drive home.
So the group takes not one hour to accomplish, but more like three (more or less).
On the basis of this example I am able to do roughly three times as many actual activities in SL given the same amount of time in FL.
Realistically, this may be an understatement of the time compressing capacities of SL, because in fact, I could not have a group discussion at this time of the morning in any case.
Indeed, even at work, if I have a break I can log on and use the search engine or event schedule and find something to drop in on, even if I only have 10 or 15 minutes.
On a more conceptual basis, the process of our lives is defined in terms of
relationships.
These are relationships with other people, as well as with developmental processes of living.
So for example I have a relationship with my spouse, as well as with my profession, or job or eduction or hobbie or political involvement.
Relationships of all sorts proceed at a radically increased rate of speed in SL.
Essentially this has to do with the radical reduction in anxiety and safety concerns that we have in SL.
I can be more direct and open with another person here because they don’t know my FL name, and cannot interfere with my FL (until or unless I know them well enough to not have those concerns).
In FL, I have to get to know someone well enough to not have those concerns first, and there is a bit of a paradox there, because it is in sharing intimate information that we get to know someone well.
Thus, in FL, it takes a relatively long time to safely develop intimacy and transparency with another person.
In SL, transparency can occur on a first meeting and proceed rapidly thereafter.
Likewise in my relationships to other sorts of activities, I have less anxiety about attempting new innovations in behavior and living.
So maybe I am less intimidated in developing my art, or in teaching my classes, and can do so with less expenditure of time and money than in FL.
All of this makes my “simulations” of FL innovations enormously rapid and very efficient.
And because it is a realistic neurological interface, I really can find out about what sorts of challenges I run into with my art, or my classes, or my relationships, and can do so very quickly.
So what have you found?
Do you find that things happen fast in SL?
Do you share intimate elements of self with others more freely here?
Are you more quickly able to experiment with new activities and involvements?
Have you found out more rapidly how they work for you?
Has any of that translated back over into FL for you?
And with that I turn the discussion over to all of you.




Farbor IB följde inte med så noga i diskussionen den här gången, utan kollade mest i några av de svenska seminariedeltagarnas profiler.


Och hittade där flera intressanta grupper att gå med i. Vi förväntar oss rapporter kring dessa framöver farbror IB!