"What I see coming out of VR (Virtual Reality) is a technology by which we can show eachother the inside of our own heads. That's what it promises. I can imagine a a world where around age 6 or 7 a child begins to build their virtual reality. Well, by the time they're 25, it would be half the size of Manhattan and it would be more YOU than your body. I mean after all, we don't really identify do we, with 145 pounds of monkey flesh. That is not YOU. You are your hopes, your fears, the inner soul, the poetry. So I can imagine a world where if you were seriously interested in having a relationship with somebody, you would invite them into your reality and say......'This is me. Stroll around. Check the levels. This is the museum and the spa. And see what you think'......"
-----Terence Mckenna, 1994----
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