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EarthSky 22: The March 19 supermoon


Posted Mar 18, 2011

Moon. Supermoon. Extreme supermoon. Hey, it’s just the moon, and it’s happened millions of times before in Earth history. The explanation and more for you … on the 22.

 

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Link: http://earthsky.org/human-world/earthsky-22-the-march-19-supermoon

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From Bot Girl’s Second Life Diary: Erotic Chat as an Exemplar of Sense Extension in Virtual Worlds


Thursday, April 30, 2009

Erotic text chat is an exemplar of sense extension within virtual worlds. It can evoke sights, sounds, smells, tastes, sensations and actions that are otherwise difficult or impossible to create visually within the digital world. Intentional activation of the imagination can induce powerfully realistic experiences because the brain does not qualitatively distinguish between physically produced and intensely imagined sensory experience. For instance, studies have shown that the brain is activated by imagined smells and tastes in the very same way it responds to actual sense impressions.

Link to article: http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2009/04/erotic-chat-as-exemplar-of-sense.html