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Re: online db stuff
- To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: online db stuff
- From: John Schinnerer <eco_living@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:20:48 -0800 (PST)
- In-reply-to: <LISTMANAGER-137576-28278-2001.11.15-16.31.24--eco_living#yahoo.com@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Newsgroups: permaculture
Aloha,
> But I do sense his portrayal of the relationship between living and
> dead
> gnosis is not as broad as it might be. I think there's more to the
> story.
> For example, I often hear gardeners suggesting that computer-mediated
> communication is fundamentally a "substitute for the real thing" - or
> however the suspicion might be phrased.
What a great conversation! Which exemplifies that (as I see it) this
is *another* communication form/process. It's neither F2F in meatspace
or a "substitute" for it, but a different manner of relating.
> It gets complicated, but Sages have roundly debunked the assumption
> that computer-mediated interaction somehow lacks value,
Sages, Schmages. We do it, we experience it, therefore our experience
is different than had we not done it. Some might call that "value," I
suppose.
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John Schinnerer, MA
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