I should answer that, since it is mostly my idea.
Alias is all we know here. Even people using their real names, might as well be using an alias. People do not talk the way here that they do in 3d. I've not met a single person that is like their posts. Not one. And I've met 40 plus SI people (I'm being conservative). Now you might meet a person and think their internal "essence" was the same even though their posts aren't. That's your business. I don't go around looking for the internal essence of people since that strikes me as akin to a religious quest. I'm interested in what you post, or what you say, or what you do. And people on SI say different things from people off SI. Period.
This way of communicating is very different from speaking, and it clearly accesses a different part of the brain. I think I remember that typists are using both left and right brain, while speakers use only one side. Not sure if that is true; I'm remembering it from a lecture, but even if it isn't, I'm sure we are using different neural pathways on line than we are in other types of communication. You may think it is the same, but neurologically I think that would be an impossible position to defend. Different stimuli, different mode of communication, equal different pathways. I think that this explains the variance I see in the 3d (real) person, versus their online incarnation.
You illogically decided that the division between those ways of being, meant I was saying there were no people- anywhere. That was silly and an intentional misstatement of what I actually said. But of course that type of distortion is to be expected on SI. I doubt you do that when you attempt to communicate in 3d. |
