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Through a philosophical reading of familiar thinkers alongside shifts in writing, printing, word processing, hypertext, and multimedia, it links each technological turn to a change in the body–mind relationship. Virtual reality also raises questions about the status of virtual experience and the difference between fact and fiction, especially when actions are rehearsed in simulation before being lived.","=7  \n# THE METAPHYSICS OFVIRTUAL REALITY\n\nDther Books by tha Author  \nElectric Language:A Philosophical Study of Word Processing(1987)  \nTranslation of Martin Heidegger,The Metaphysical Foundationsof Logic(1984)  \nTHE METAPHYSICS OFVIRTUAL REALITY  \nMichael Heim  \nOxford University Press  \nOxford New York  \nAthens Auckland Bangkok BombayCalcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam DelhiFlorence Hong Kong Istanbul KarachiKuala Lumpur Madras Madrid MelbourneMexico City Nairobi Paris SingaporeTaipie Tokyo Toronto  \nand associated companies inBerlin Ibadan  \nCopyright ◎1993 by Michael Heim  \nFirst published in 1993 by Oxford University Press,Inc.  \n198 Madison Avenue,New York,New York 10016-4314  \nFirst issued as an Oxford University Press paperback,1994  \nOxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press,Inc.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise,without the prior permission of Oxford University Press.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nHeim,Michael,1944-  \nThe metaphysics of virtual reality/by Michael Heim,  \np.cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-19-508178-1  \nISBN 0-19-509258-9(pbk)  \n1.Human-computer interaction.2.Virtual reality.  \n3.Technology-Social aspects.I.Title.  \nQA76.9.H85H451993  \n006—dc20  \n109876543  \nFor young Mike,Jack and Dorothy,and alwaysJoanna  \nIn the present state of the world,the control we have of physical en-ergies,heat,light,electricity,etc.,without control over the use ofourselves is a perilous affair.Without control of ourselves,our useof other things is blind.  \nJohn Dewey,Preface to F.M.Alexander,The Resurrection of the Body  \nFOREWORD  \nIf virtual reality were just another technology,you would nothave heard so much about it.However,it is a technology thatcan be applied to every human activity and can be used tomediate in every human transaction.Since you are completelyimmersed in the virtual world,virtual reality constitutes anew form of human experience-one that may be as importantto the future as film,theater,and literature have been to thepast.Its potential impact is so broad that it may define the cul-ture that results from its use.As a consequence,the conceptof virtual reality will be as widely used as a metaphor as it isin practice.  \nIn this book,Michael Heim points out that virtual realityis the culmination of a process that has been going on forsome time in technology and for even longer in Westernthought.He goes back to the roots of this development andtraces how each change in the technology of knowledge hasled to a change in our relationship to knowledge and ulti-mately in our view of ourselves.His review of the ideas offamiliar philosophers in light of contemporary technologicalchange is fascinating.For instance,Leibniz's vision of a com-munity of minds precisely anticipates current data networks.  \nThe beginning of this evolution occurred when the inven-tion of writing enormously expanded the capacity of humanmemory to extend beyond a single lifetime.But until the in-vention of the printing press,writing was itself a form of wor-ship.After Gutenberg,the written word could be owned byindividuals as well as institutions.  \nRecently,such is the pace of development and so rapid  \nis our adaptation to it that one revolution is not over beforethe next has begun.One wonders if we are in the midst ofa cataclysm that will soon run its course,or if the fact not justof change but of accelerating change has now become a con-stant feature of our lives.  \nIn the past two decades,the printed word has begun toyield to the electronic word.Whereas the printing press mini-mized the reader's investment,word processing reduces thewriter's.Writers can write to see if they have anything to say.If a thought emerges,they can capture it,tame it,and makeit march on parade as though it had been conceived to do so,R","cbCaigYwJkwV0vuU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigYwJkwV0vuU","pdf",9633279,4,1,200,"English","en",105,"# Foreword\n## Virtual reality as a new human experience\n## Evolution of knowledge technologies: writing to multimedia\n## Hypertext and nonlinearity\n## Virtual reality and the body in knowledge seeking\n## Philosophical questions of virtual experience","[{\"question\":\"Why is virtual reality considered more than a typical technology in this book?\",\"answer\":\"It is described as applicable to every human activity and capable of mediating nearly all human transactions, creating a new form of human experience that could shape future culture.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the foreword connect virtual reality to earlier developments in technology 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