BEES AND FLOWERS: AN ESSAY BY EXTROPIA DaSILVA
BEES AND FLOWERS: AN ESSAY BY EXTROPIA DaSILVA.
“Why did this woman collect dolls? Was it one specific moment where she suddenly said, ‘I know: dolls’? Or was it a whole series of things, starting from when her parents first met that somehow combined in such a way that, in the end, she had no choice but to be a doll collector”?-spoken by Clyde Bruckman, a character in an episode of ‘The X-Files’.
INTRODUCTION.
Do you control your avatar, or does your avatar control you?
What a silly question! After all, unless you have given your avvie some measure of artificial intelligence, it cannot do anything until you cause it to happen. Without you, it is a lifeless, mindless object. How can something without a mind control something blessed with one? That is what makes answering my question a bit of a no-brainer…

