October 18 lecture notes

We watched avatar which, I got to admit that it was pretty cool. In the movie Jake Sully, a disabled veteran got the chance to have an avatar, which is a new body which he has a genetic link with lives in when he sleeps in a machine and he has full body functions. As time goes on, as he keeps switching from body to body, his worlds begin to blur together and his realities melt together and his alternate reality starts to feel like his actual reality. Then we talked about people’s vision of themselves in another world. We talked about identity. Glenn showed us 3 other people’s version of their animated self. We then watched a short clip about a little Asian girl. It was a cartoon story.