Complexity Theory, Consciousness, and Everyday Life - Neil Theise, M.D. - ND3783
New Dimensions
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The Effects of Programming on Human Behavior in Online Environments
We were part of this movement about adult stem cell plasticity that adult cells could move around the body and become cells of other organs. And through that work, I had been introduced by a friend to an artist named Jane Prophet who had been herself interested in how people interact with virtual creatures in online environments. So she was this artist that had, with a collaborator, had created this online environment called Technosphere. This is about 25 years ago. You would create a little creature and send it out into the world called Technosphere and it would be an herbivore or a carnivore. It would get email postcards from your creature telling you what it was up to: "Today I gra
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