through the internal processes of our neurobiology. As far as your neurons are concerned, there is no substantive difference between seeing a human on earth and viewing an avatar in Second Life. I ran across a fascinating lecture this weekend on "The Neurobiology of Primate Sexuality" by Professor Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University. I usually think about virtual life from a psychological or sociological perspective, so it was refreshing to think about how biological systems impact human life in virtual worlds. I'll hold my additional comments until next time, to give you a chance to view the video. (The second video's aspect ratio is wrong, but audio is good.) Part 1: Part 2: Posted by Botgirl Questi at 09:11AM (-07:00)
Wordle Exposes Botgirl's Radical Shift From Second Life to Social N... Wednesday, March 25, 2009 I was playing around with Wordle yesterday and thought it would be interesting to compare my blog posts from the first couple of months with text from the most recent two months. I ended up comparing three periods: April-May, 2008; OctoberNovember, 2008; and January-February 2009. I ran each set through a series of "search and replace" iterations to eliminate repetitive text such as "Posted by Botgirl Questi" and "link to this post." I also combined a few word pairs so they wouldn't be processed separately, so "Second Life" was changed to "SecondLife" and "Social Network(s)" was replaced by "SocialNetworks." I'll let the images speak for themselves: April-May, 2008October-November, 2008 January-February 2009I'll get back to Primates in Virtual Worlds in the next post. Posted by Botgirl Questi at 09:00AM (-07:00)
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