[MD] Many Avatars, Many Selves

[Ron Kulp]

[Arlo]
Emphasis = "context". The physiological host of any self is 
irrelevant to me in structuring my interactions with them in this 
forum. However, as I said several time, should my goal switch to 
mating, the physiological host assumes great value for me. In all 
cases, my accepting or rejecting another's "self" as it is presented 
to me has to do with what has value or meaning for me.


Conventionally, we want to say the "Arlo" who inhabits MD is "real", 
while the "Aenea" who inhabits World of Warcraft is "unreal", but 
this works only a very superficial level, and on one where we have to 
bury our heads in the sand over key issues of identity. 


Ron:

For "myself" it is a matter of projection vs. preconception.
>If we work to diminish pre-conception on the forum why would we 
>encourage projection is my question.
>They both sustain a false identity equally in my opinion.
>
>I mean doesn't the whole enterprise of communication include identity? 
>Is the boy who cried wolf a reliable value relationship?
>Isn't his identity part of the relationship in some respect?
>I do not need to have the idea of self as a consistency of value 
>patterns driven down my throat to give meaning to this sort of value in

>identity but that's what you continue to do in response to this 
>question.
>
>What I said before about the source being every bit as vital as the 
>words in the development of meaning in value relationships  still 
>stands for me.
>
>The source that gave the intelligence of weapons of mass destruction 
>was every bit as vital as the information being passed.
>
If the source was investigated more thoroughly perhaps
countless lives may have been saved.