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We all know that VR headgear and the like so far creates a 
rather low grade experience of reality, is still dependent on 
primary sensory equipment (e.g. eyes, ears) in any case, and so 
is not "another reality" in the same intimate sense as we're 
born into (aka experience).  Only Hollywood (the movies) is up 
to sustaining the myth that VR is so far evolved as to suggest 
a substitute -- and Hollywood has this capability because 
film/video is actually further along as a facsimile in some 
dimensions (VR adds the interactivity and buck-swivel, making 
those "3D glasses plus lurching seats" the most convincing VR 
experiences to date).

From a literary point of view, however, it makes sense to 
follow Hollywood's lead and converge the terminologies of 
reality and virtual reality a little more, to where the 
everyday sensorium is indeed a "workstation" or "job site" 
where energy unscrolls and unfurls, involving us in various 
twisted plots and stories.  This makes sense from a pure 
physics point of view:  energy is a quantity built around the 
notion of matter in motion, and its expenditure is in "frames 
of action" (time/size "snapshots" of stuff happening).  The 
primordial experience is of "work" (encompasses "play") with 
XYZ-CGS abstractions such as "seconds" and "grams" having only 
secondary (derivative) meanings, primally anchored in the more 
generic sense of "change" or "flux" (signified by the greek 
letter DELTA).

Thinking of your everyday "sphere" or "mindset" as VR headgear 
and a setting for "work" (energy expenditure through time) with 
the rate of work getting done related to "power" (rate of 
energy expense), gets you closer to the motherboard metaphor.  
Electromagnetic energy derived from spinning twisted coils 
through fields, carries heavy duty momentum (as from a river 
flowing) to your workstation, where "gears" (chipsets) 
transform the pumped momentum into usable (switchable) 
channels. A computer motherboard is similar to a water wheel, 
taking a cascade of downhill-flowing momentum and making it 
turn something, which is in turn linked to various gizmos -- 
which gizmos are software-programmable in the case of a 
computer.

What's important to communicate is that a solar gradient is 
turning the "big wheels" which keep the rivers flowing 
(evaporation, wind patterns, condensation), such that a 
workstation is "riding the grade" of solar energy "flowing out 
into space" from source (fusion) to sink (partial vacuum) or 
ground.  The various individual motherboards, or workstations, 
integrate into a vast telecommunications system which is 
connected around circumferentially (a "spherical motherboard") 
-- this is "motherboard earth", a metaphor designed to take its 
place alongside "spaceship earth" as a conceptual tool (in this 
case designed to connote "fragile, delicate, sophisticated, 
programmable, switchable").  "Motherboard earth" is convergent 
with "ecosystem" in that the humanly contrived portions are 
just "more programming" (human architecture or electronics -- 
i.e. "architectronics" -- different than "architectonics").

So whether or not you are actually sitting at a keyboard and 
screen (cell-silicon interface devices in a bio-metalic hybrid 
circuitry), you can look around, take in your "sensorium" and 
say to yourself "this is my workstation, a place to get the job 
done" (whatever "job" might mean in your case).

For further reading:

http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/motherboard.html
http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/gst1.html
http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/ocn/calculus2.html
http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/gstuniv.html
http://www.inetarena.com/~pdx4d/outline2.html

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Kirby T. Urner  http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/kirby.html
4D Solutions    http://www.teleport.com/~pdx4d/  [PGP OK]
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