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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Roger, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Many years ago, during my very brief weedy period, I was with a group of people who wanted to smoke pot, but had none. I suggest that we “enact” it: i.e., do everything we would do if we had pot, but without the pot. You know, the passing of the toke, the avoidance of burning the fingers, the squinting, the sucking, the oh wowing, etc. It went very well, so well in fact that some participants became uneasy and opted out. During that same time, we had a friend who would behave badly at restaurants after a few glasses of wine. We plotted against him, substuting our empty glasses for his full one so he had the impression he was drinking much more than he actually was. The embarrassing behavior went ahead anyway. N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Roger Critchlow<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 8, 2022 10:05 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Isness: Using Multi-Person VR to Design Peak Mystical-Type Experiences Comparable to Psychedelics<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940">https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00940</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This must be on some topic around here. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Originally picked up from <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/">https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/06/1056727/vr-virtual-reality-psychedelics-transcendence/</a>, which is paywalled.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The original arxiv posting is 20 years old, but the work was just published inh<o:p></o:p></p></div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=0 summary="Additional metadata"><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 4.9pt 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><br>CHI 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<br><br>-- rec --<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>