As this comprehensive and multidisciplinary book makes clear,
virtuality has a pedigree that pre-dates the computer age and
modern virtual worlds, a pedigree that can be traced back to
classical mythology and beyond. Equally, the concept of virtuality
is not the province of one field of study alone but is the
foundation and driving force of many, both theoretical and applied.
Our conceptualizations and applications of virtuality are multiple,
as contributors demonstrate across the nine sections of the book
that move from philosophy to technologies and applications before
returning to philosophy again for a discussion of the utopias and
dystopias of virtuality. The almost 50 essays contained within
range freely across subjects that include the potential of
virtuality, ethics, virtuality and self, presence and immersion,
virtual emotions, image, sound and literature, computer games, AI
and A-Life, Augmented Reality and Real Virtuality, law and
economics, medical and military applications, religion, and
cybersex. Throughout, contributors discuss differences between
virtuality, reality, and actuality, in debates filtered through the
lenses of the disciplines represented here, and speculate on future
directions. It is not at all clear that there are differences and,
if such distinctions are to be found, the boundaries between
virtuality, reality, and actuality continually shift as ideas,
modes of organization, and behaviors constantly flow from one to
the other regardless of direction. The Handbook presents no unified
definition of virtuality to comfort the reader, rather a
multiplicity of questions and approaches underpinned by provocative
statements that should further fuel the debates surrounding our
notions of virtuality.
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