"...The cyberspace matrix was actually a drastic simplification of the human sensorium."
-William Gibson, Neuromancer, p.55

"Modern machinery is an irreverent upstart god, mocking the Father's ubiquity and spirituality."

-Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs," p.195
Any artificial reproduction of reality offers only a tiny peek into the range of human consciousness. (And our sensory experiences in this realm of matter are only a few drops in the ocean of Truth in the Astral Plane, beyond the constructed limitations of our incarnated selves.)

We can play with reconstructions, but they separate our minds from our bodies, instead of the experiences that can bring these "parts" of ourselves into communion.

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