Philosophical Foundations of Experiential Design: Esoteric Elucidations of VR & AR

Kent Bye's keynote at VRTO in Toronto on June 16th explores the philosophical foundations of experiential design for immersive virtual and augmented reality. It leverages Richard Tarnas' Passion of the Western Mind, which casts the evolution of Western thought as a dialectic between Plato & Aristotle. Aristotle's approach has formed the foundations empirical science with different levels of causation while Plato's approach has been crucial for mathematics, mythology, storytelling, and different spiritual and esoteric traditions through Neoplatonism.

Quantum mechanics represents a major paradigm shift in science, but there hasn't been a coherent story of what the empirical results of quantum mechanics means as a cosmology. There has been more empirical results that are pointing towards a panpsychic, cosmopsychic, or idealistic interpretation of the nature of reality, which would mean a shift in the center of gravity from Aristotle back over to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead's Process philosophy is informed by the mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics, and Carl Jung's depth psychology explored and synthesized insights from a wide range of mythic, symbolic, and other Hermetic esoteric traditions including alchemy and astrology. Tarnas' archetypal cosmology builds upon Whitehead and Jung, and has more of a non-linear and holistic approach to causality that leverages Whitehead's panpsychic process philosophy but also the Neoplatonic tradition of the Anima Mundi or world soul.

While Aristotle is great for models of external quantitative reality, Plato has inspired a wide range of different esoteric traditions that provide maps for the qualitative experience.

This talk lays down the philosophical foundations to consider traditions from Eastern, Natural, and Hermetic philosophies as qualitative maps of consciousness that are based upon alchemical principles of polarity points that create consonance, dissonance, and the integration of opposites that forms the basis of musical harmony and dramatic tension in story that gives us an experience of time.

This experiential framework talks about the context of an experience, the quality of the experience, the content and character of the experience, and how that experience evolves over time and is in relation to other aspects of reality.

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