Ed Fornieles: The Limitations of the simulated self

You live within the infrastructure of the simulation

Your brain your modelling device feeding of a network of others

who unable to grasp any solid reality is forced to invent it.

In the model nothing is necessary, perception and reality are up for negotiation. With alternative decisions and environments, you might have been someone completely other, society and culture might have followed any number of trajectories, each resulting in distinct worlds. In this sense our personal and cultural models are up for grabs, our perception of whatever truth might be lies somehow in our inputs; we are what we eat.

Items for discussion:

Reality as Model as Simulation - The creation of an imaginarium

The Illusion of Freewill - Negotiating a self and the power of role play

The Body and the World - Gravity, thermodynamics and the impact of hormones

Trauma - Thinking is not learning

The tension in the Model - When expectations don't meet with experience.

Bio

Ed Fornieles has researched, developed and deployed role play in his work for many years primarily focusing on its use as a possibility space in which preconceptions about identity and institutions can begin being questioned and perhaps even rethought.