Virtual Worlds, Contextualism, and the Myth of Fiction

author: Peter Ludlow, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto

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In this lecture I will tell you a story about my exploits in Second Life, at the end of that I will extract two philosophical conclusions. At the beginning of the lecture we will have fun and discuss about various philosophical aspects and at the end we will get serious and try to establish a conclusion. We will start off by discussing about two virtual worlds...

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*Slides*
0:00	The Second Life Herald
0:36	TSO Avatar Creation
1:14	TSO Build Tools
1:34	TSO Content
1:46	The Sims Online
2:10	The Result
3:01	Urizenus Tends to a Fireplace
3:21	The Church of Mephistopheles (Now Alphaville Herald HQ)
3:36	The Alphaville Herald
3:52	Alphaville
4:40	The Black Rose Castle
4:46	Alphaville
5:12	The Black Rose Castle
5:38	Black Rose Castle Website
6:02	Gambino Family Site
6:16	The Capo
6:24	A $100K + Simolean Seller
7:04	Simoleans for Sale on eBay
7:25	Free Money for Newbies
7:59	Two Key Incidents
11:00	Dec. 2, Candace’s Final Appeal
11:32	Dec. 5, EA Reviews Logs and Contacts Authorities
12:03	Dec. 6, Uri Flagged for TOS Violation
12:42	A Sample Profile
12:57	Dec. 8. The Interview with Evangeline Appears
13:50	Hotel Erotica
14:19	Hotel Erotica: Exterior
14:43	Elegantly Appointed Rooms!
14:52	Sim Sorority House Plots Revenge
17:15	Before the Demo
17:25	The Hotel Erotica Gets Demo Job by the Sim Sorority House
18:17	The Sims Shadow Government
18:41	Government Organization
18:52	SSG’s Intelligence Branch
19:41	Tagging a Griefer
20:43	Evangeline’s Anti-SSG Site
20:57	What It Was Really About - 1
21:33	What It Was Really About - 2
22:17	Dec. 10, 5:43 GMT: Uri Suspended for 72 Hours
22:42	A Sample Property Description
22:50	Dec. 10, 16:25 GMT: Account Terminated
23:12	Urizenus Moves to Second Life
24:37	Second Life
24:38	Second Life Avatar Creation
24:57	Second Life Content Creation - 1
25:24	Second Life Content Creation - 2
25:36	Second Life Content Creation - 3
25:46	Second Life Herald - 1
26:27	Second Life Herald - 2
26:29	Second Life Herald - 3
26:47	Second Life Herald - 4
26:57	Second Life Herald - 5
27:02	Second Life Herald - 6
27:11	Covering Drama on the Electronic Frontier - 1
27:25	Covering Drama on the Electronic Frontier - 2
28:24	Pancake vs. Falcon
28:44	Who Should Mediate? Chaunsey Crash vs. Lee Linden
29:22	The Jessie Way
30:24	The Linden Way
30:57	The Linden Way Cont.
31:32	Jessian’s < 3 Lee Linden
31:42	Afterwards: Lindens for Target Practice
31:51	Practice is Over
31:56	The Second Jessie War
32:17	The Land Baron on the Jessie Border
33:03	The Land Baron
33:21	Ruby Wilde
33:52	The Land Baron vs Ruby Wilde
34:28	Jeff Linden
34:42	A Linden Disperses the Gang - 1
34:58	At the Diamonds Club - 1
35:05	At the Diamonds Club - 2
35:24	Trouble Brewing - 1
35:31	Trouble Brewing - 2
35:46	Trouble Brewing - 3
35:59	Trouble Brewing - 4
36:24	Trouble Brewing - 5
36:36	Trouble Brewing - 6
36:56	Trouble Brewing - 7
37:06	Trouble Brewing - 8
37:20	Trouble Brewing - 9
37:51	One Song and Tank Split - 1
37:57	One Song and Tank Split - 2
38:04	One Song and Tank Split - 3
38:11	One Song and Tank Split - 4
38:24	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 1
38:47	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 2
39:11	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 3
39:15	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 4
39:28	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 5
39:39	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 2
39:42	Don’t Call Me a Pussy! - 6
40:10	WWIIOLers Get Revenge - 1
40:18	WWIIOLers Get Revenge - 2
40:31	WWIIOLers Get Revenge - 3
41:05	Tank on the Rebound - 1
41:20	Tank on the Rebound - 2
41:30	Tank on the Rebound - 3
41:40	Or Not.
41:41	Where Is Club X-Tacy?
42:14	- Questions

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