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I recently watched a film called “Surrogates”: a film starring Bruce Willis where everyone could live their lives through advanced remote control robots (hence surrogates). In that respect, it was a similar concept to the Avatars in James Cameron’s fantastic movie called, erm… Avatar.

This got me thinking. How differently would we be to how we behave in person, right now – face to face with others, having adopted a new physical form that we consider to have perfect looks and physical abilities? It would be nothing personal, we are not the surrogate, it would just a game… Having removed ourselves from the situation, we would have also removed ourselves from physical danger. If we were hit by a truck we could buy another surrogate and resume play. More excitement, less fear…

Wouldn’t life be somewhat like a computer adventure game similar to what we can now experience? With the absence of perceived fear we could all become super heroes. If it didn’t work out we could essentially press the reset button and have another go. Even if you were on your last surrogate, you would still have your real flesh and blood self to fall back on – and would that be such a bad thing?

Many of us already know what I’m talking about and are more and more on our way to that world: Email, Messenger, Internet chat rooms, Twitter, Facebook, Offline Computer games, Online Computer games such as World of Warcraft.

I used to work with a woman, I think in her mid thirties, who would hardly speak to anyone apart from other World of Warcraft players. I think in her other dimension she was some kind of high priestess – someone of significance within the game. Outside of overhearing her speak of World of Warcraft, I considered her quiet and impolite, she didn’t really appear to enjoy her real existence…

So what’s the difference? I doubt that any of us would settle for our ’surrogate’ or ‘avatar’ to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day – what a boring game that would be – so why do many of us settle for it for ourselves in our ‘real’ lives?

Sometimes it takes is a massive change to change our ‘real’ lives like: redundancy, bankruptcy, divorce, death of a loved one. But it’s not a requirement. It really only takes a new way of thinking…

The ’surrogates’ and ‘avatars’ that we adopt in cyberspace are not us. They don’t even exist in our 3rd dimension. they’re not personal, we are not the surrogate, it’s just a game… At best, they are 2 dimensional fictions that we adopt in our 3 dimensional world. But the 2 dimensional experience seems just as able to stimulate us as much as our 3 dimensional experience.

Although this 2D existence is not a true existence, when we play we start to believe and our 2D experience can become addictive and feel almost real. More excitement, less fear… Independently, belief has more power than truth.

We may not know for certain our source of consciousness but what if our thoughts really live in a 4th dimension and that our flesh and blood bodies are surrogates or avatars in a 3rd dimensional universe, It’s nothing personal, we are not the surrogate, it’s just a game… and wouldn’t that be the ultimate game: The Great Game of Life…?

Changing something really only takes a new way of thinking…

Filed under: General Tags: by admin Date 17 February, 2010
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