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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| How to Go "behind" Physical Space | |
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| Playing the Game: Get Wired to Go Weird | |
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| What If Now ... | |
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| Cross-Communication Situations | |
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| Interpersonal-Telepresence: I Am Here! | |
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| The Community of Interpersonal-Telepresence | |
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| The Principle of Reciprocity | |
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| The Causal and the Digital under the Virtual | |
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| The Four Sources of Virtual Reality Input | |
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| Manipulation of the Physical Process from Cyberspace | |
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| Cybersex and Reproduction | |
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| The Expansion beyond Necessity | |
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| Interaction among Participants | |
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| The Final Decision That Is Irreversible: Alert! | |
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| The Parallelism between the Virtual and the Actual | |
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| Deconstructing Rules for the "Real" and the "Illusory" | |
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| Communicative Rationality as the Final Rule | |
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| How Phenomenological Descriptions Are the Same Throughout | |
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| Fundamental Philosophical Questions Remain | |
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| All Are Optional Except the Mind | |
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| John Searle's False Notion of Body Image in the Brain | |
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| The Fallacy of Unity Projection | |
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| The One-ness of Consciousness, Brain, and Quantum Mechanics | |
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| A Conjecture: The Square Root of -1 as the Psy-Factor | |
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| The Meaning of Life and Virtual Reality | |
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| Recapitulation and Anticipation | |
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| Meaning as Different from Happiness: Brave New World? | |
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| Meaning and the Creator | |
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| Significant Difference versus Real Difference | |
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| Three Modes of Subjectivity and Intentionality | |
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| Meaning, Ideality, and Humanitude | |
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| Virtual Reality: The Way Home | |
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| VR and the Destiny of Humankind | |
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| The Fragility of Technological Civilization | |
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| The Question of Death | |
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| Transcendence of Personhood and Immortality | |
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| What Could Happen Soon | |
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| Virtual Reality and the Ontological Re-Creation | |
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| Jaron Lanier's Virtual Reality Debut Interview | |
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| Notes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |