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Virtual Reality

So I don't know about you but I take a great appreciation in the interactions I have with the people that I encounter everyday. I honestly believe that some of the weird interactions I have with the random people in the world, give me a better perspective on life.  For example lets take a shitty situation I'm going through right now - I got called in to serve on a jury over the past 7 days. Despite my multiple efforts to be excused because I'm a student, I have been forced to serve with 12 other strangers of completely different walks of life, which of whom I might not have ever seen in my entire life if I was not forced to serve on this jury. The Los Angeles Courthouse is located smack dab in the center of downtown LA and has forced me to experience multiple facets of the unknown. First of all, I have never served on a jury before, secondly, I don't know my way around downtown LA to save my life, and lastly, I have a lot of pressure on me to graduate in 8 weeks. At first, I was pretty pissed off about the whole thing but now I look at it differently now that I have been serving (and will continue to serve on Tuesday). I look at it as an opportunity to gain life experience and this might be something that I might not ever have had to go through unless I was forced to by threat of imprisonment. These past 7 days have been an experience that I will take with me for the rest of my life. I can honestly say that the only way to live a full healthy life is to actually go out and freakin live it. What would it take for you to give that up?

The new interest in virtual reality using the program of 2nd Life doesn't totally sit well with me. It makes me look at how we are giving up what is most precious to the human race; human interaction itself. And trust me, I understand that virtual reality is a form of interaction even though it happens to be through a computer screen where you can meet people from all different parts of the world. To me, you still haven't met them. I believe that you might be able to get to know someone through an alternative reality through an exchange of information from one another but I still don't believe that you have really met them. Interacting with human beings is apart of who we are and what makes us separate from the animals. I would never want to give that up because for some computer screen. I think that is an easy way out.

Now Dr. Gilbert addresses the psychological benefits of creating a fully functioning avatar for those who are severely impaired or have significant physical disabilities. I understand that this virtual world will allow people with unique circumstances to feel a great deal of happiness through the acceptance and appreciation that they might get through medium of social life. I believe it is important for people to face their issues and do not let themselves get sucked into a life that can be fabricated or deviate from the truth. It is important to face the hard challenges in life and learn to be the person that you were born as. I do understand that it is much easier said than done. But everyone has fears that they face every single day. Overcoming your fears and insecurities is an element of life that forces you to grow into a better person.

Dr. Gilbert believes that one can experience the same kind of experiences in 2nd Life as a person can in real life with little difference between the two. I do believe that there is a major difference between being on the beach in the summer feeling the ocean breeze on your face while digging your toes into the sand and sitting in front of a computer screen watching a cartoon version of yourself that you created, live the life that you aren't.

There are a lot of people in our country and our history who have fought for the freedoms for us to be able to go down to the park and have a barbecue with our family or go sledding in the snow. By simply choosing not to participate in those freedoms that people died to give you I feel like thats a bit of a slap in the face to them.