Living in Parallel: Adventures in double consciousness and pluralism

This paper attempts to redefine Double Consciousness (DC) as a framework through a number of emerging application areas, including: i) Living in Virtual Reality, ii) Dream Hacking and iii) DMTx Technology. The following questions will be used to frame the investigation: What are the opportunities that these application areas offer in terms of living in parallel? What are the corresponding challenges? Can adopting these forms of DC help us to see ourselves from other perspectives? How will DC technology change the experience of reality for individuals, for groups and for society? What are the ethics of these DC technologies? What are the limits of DC and how can Pluralism contribute?

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Carl H Smith

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 387-395

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Principal Research Fellow Ravensbourne University London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.69

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] R Arnott 2020 Soundself https://www.soundself.com 5 March 2018

[2] R Ascott 1999 Seeing Double: Art and the Technology of Transcendence

[3] K Davidson 2020 Living in the Space between Double Consciousness https://medium.com/@kevindavidson_29753/living-in-the-space-between-double-consciousness-9f099f4913da 24 April 2020

[4] E Davis 2019 High Weirdness: with Erik Davis, Jeremy Gilbert and Debra Shaw London 26th June 2019

[5] W. E. B Du Bois 1897 Strivings of the Negro people Atlantic Monthly Company Chicago

[6] M Farid 2015 Data Shadow https://www.markfarid.com/#data1 5 Feb 2016

[7] Field.io 2015 Quasar https://www.field.io 25 April 2018

[8] A Gallimore 2019 Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game Strange Worlds Press

[9] S Harding 2017 Encountering Another Being https://www.accessoneness.com/encountering-another-being 5 April 2018

[10] Huxley video philosophy for life.org recording from UCLA Huxley archive

[11] In the Eyes of the Animal / Marshmallow Laser Feast 2015 https://www.andfestival.org.uk/events/in-the-eyes-of-the-animal-marshmallow-laser-feast 7 April 2016

[12] Fields Letcher 2020 Andy Letcher with Lauren Fields 'Honouring the invisible' podcast https://www.facebook.com/lauren.fields.528/posts/10156791994847001 5 Feb 2020

[13] G Morrison 2015 Disinformation Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-cxBuRU09w 19 June 2017

[14] S Mota-Rolim 2019 Portable Devices to Induce Lucid Dreams—Are They Reliable? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6517539 25 Nov 2019

[15] A Parsons 2018 Ontological designing http://compendium.kosawese.net/practice/ontological-designing 26 April 2019

[16] Pluralism (philosophy) 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(philosophy) 5 Feb 2020

[17] G Pullen 2015 Reaching A Deeper Consensus of Reality https://www.feldenkraisguild.com/article_content.asp?edition=1&section=14&article=320 1 Feb 2020

[18] D Satori 2019 Human / Nature 4 August 2019 London

[19] Seeing I https://www.seeing-i.co.uk 15 April 2016

[20] S Shashank 2018 Visual Grammar https://medium.com/@thejigsaw.in/visual-grammar-3a3d4cb7069b 25 April 2011

[21] T Thwaites 2016 A holiday from being human (GoatMan) https://www.thomasthwaites.com/a-holiday-from-being-human-goatman/ 5 March 2020

[22] C Timmerman 2018 DMT Is the Drug for Our Collective Crisis of Meaning https://elemental.medium.com/dmt-is-the-drug-for-our-collective-crisis-of-meaning-eddbb4bb697c 5 Feb 2020

[23] Transpecies Society 2018 Transpecies Society presents new cyborgs with novel senses https://biohackinfo.com/news-transpecies-society-presents-more-cyborgs-with-novel-senses/

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