Was there a time-lapse element to Otherland?
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In the Otherland novels, the protagonists enter a Virtual Reality environment for an extended time to investigate an enormous network, and are locked into it.
I've read the books several times, and thoroughly enjoy each, but I am curious if, within the story of the mental fabric, there was a time-difference due to the hypnotic nature of the way it intruded on brain stimuli – sort of like how a dream goes by.
Is there any indication in the novels or from the author that there is anything other than an internal time = clock time arrangement?
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In the Otherland novels, the protagonists enter a Virtual Reality environment for an extended time to investigate an enormous network, and are locked into it.
I've read the books several times, and thoroughly enjoy each, but I am curious if, within the story of the mental fabric, there was a time-difference due to the hypnotic nature of the way it intruded on brain stimuli – sort of like how a dream goes by.
Is there any indication in the novels or from the author that there is anything other than an internal time = clock time arrangement?
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There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago
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In the Otherland novels, the protagonists enter a Virtual Reality environment for an extended time to investigate an enormous network, and are locked into it.
I've read the books several times, and thoroughly enjoy each, but I am curious if, within the story of the mental fabric, there was a time-difference due to the hypnotic nature of the way it intruded on brain stimuli – sort of like how a dream goes by.
Is there any indication in the novels or from the author that there is anything other than an internal time = clock time arrangement?
otherland
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In the Otherland novels, the protagonists enter a Virtual Reality environment for an extended time to investigate an enormous network, and are locked into it.
I've read the books several times, and thoroughly enjoy each, but I am curious if, within the story of the mental fabric, there was a time-difference due to the hypnotic nature of the way it intruded on brain stimuli – sort of like how a dream goes by.
Is there any indication in the novels or from the author that there is anything other than an internal time = clock time arrangement?
otherland
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There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago
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There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago
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There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago
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There wasn't any internal reference point in Otherland for time. While it's certainly possible, and there's plenty of evidence that characters lose time when the... "OS"... gets too intrusive, most of the hypnotic suggestion was to convince the brain that it was all real, without which it was very clearly just a simulation, albeit the best one ever built.
– Radhil
yesterday
@Radhil - thanks; I was trying to suss out the gaps between what was happening in real life vs what was happening during the virtual reality: it's a remarkable story, so I'd like to reconcile the time differences even if it doesn't amount to anything to anyone else.
– Mikey
17 hours ago