Re: ontological breakdown [long posting] (from P. Rauch)

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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:30:36 -0700
From: peterr@violet.berkeley.edu (Peter Rauch)
To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: ontological breakdown [long posting]
Cc: delong@econ.berkeley.edu
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If anyone is interested to read what a number of people have said about
real and virtual museums, check out the following:

Gopher your way to ucmp1.berkeley.edu and choose the menu items that
lead:

from  Mailing Lists: Mollusca, Micropal, Museum-l, NHCOLL-L/
to    Museum Listserver Archive /
to    Search the Museum Listserver Archive <?>

and select "Search..." and type the word virtual

You will get back a list of all the messages that MUSEUM-L subscribers
submitted (containing the word "virtual"), most of which discuss virtual
museums and virtual reality on same.

Most of the issues raised recently here on paleonet, and others, can be
found in one form or another among those messages and make for interesting
reading.

With respect to one paleonet writer's comment "to visit some real
museums", I would ask, as I did on MUSEUM-L, Is that where one finds
tanned skins sewn onto wire and plaster forms, standing in plastic
grass, staring through the glass window at you? Oh, and can you smell that
animal's droppings? What? No real smell?

Reality, as the other person suggested, is a philosophical and varied place.
Peter