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[Jayne Gackenbach]

a great book considering these broader issues and tying them to the
research is a recent one by Antti Revousuo called "Inner Presence" - I
am finding it pulls together various elements of questions regarding
consciousness and VR (read gaming in our case)

Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Grant MacEwan College
6-394; 10700-104 Ave.
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4S2
Canada
780-633-3892
gackenbachj at macewan.ca



>>> "Gordon Calleja" <Gordon.Calleja at vuw.ac.nz> 10/20/2006 1:37 pm >>>

That is really interesting Jayne!  In the initial phases of the PhD I
could not help but get embroiled in the perception/mental imagery
discussions in psychology and had started a comparative analysis with
views on mental imagery in pschology and imagination in philosophy,
which ultimately led me (astray, according to my supervisors) into
philosophy of mind.  I eventually had to pull out of that broader scope
and limit my thesis (for sanity's sake) but I too am very interested
(albeit with a lack of solid psych background as yourself) in both the
effects of gaming on consciousness on gaming but also on the internal
work done to transform these myriad of coloured pixels into coherent and
meaningful entities in consciousness (excuse the crudeness of the
terminology).  Would love to hear more about your work!

Gordon

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It's wonderful to read about the various members of this list and the
range of professional interests and credentials. As much as my
students
are thrilled that I'm looking at video game players, my colleagues are
a
bit puzzled! I've had my PhD for about a million years and spent most
of
my professional life examining consciousness and especially
consciousness in sleep. Now how did I get into digital gaming? Well
when
I got my son his first game console about a decade ago and on the way
home from Toys R Us he was kissing the box I thought, hum this is
something I need to learn more about. As a psychologist I read the
research available at that time and noticed that some of the cognitive
effects of game play are also the ones I see with the emergence of
consciousness in sleep. Might gamers be having more lucid dreams, i.e.
dreams where you know you are dreaming while you are dreaming? Thus
began a series of studies asking this question and related ones
regarding how gaming is affecting consciousness. Although some of the
work has been outletted, reviewers tend to either be gaming experts
with
no idea what consciousness is about or consciousness experts with no
idea what gaming is about. So I'm slugging along and am excited to
have
others in the gaming community to talk to about the experience of
gaming
and, I hope, its effects.
Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.

Jayne Gackenbach, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Grant MacEwan College
6-394; 10700-104 Ave.
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 4S2
Canada
780-633-3892
gackenbachj at macewan.ca 

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