Our "virtual reality"

davidsmith208
Sep 9, 2017
1 min read

Was long ago described by Dante

Dante has in some fashion anticipated our expression “virtual reality” in his description of the “virtual” bodies of the souls in the afterlife:

Digital Dante

In Purgatorio 25 he his trying to figure how a virtual body can get thin, in a space where they do not even need food.

PS I am so happy I have made it though Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio in virtual reality so I won't have to go there in "time for time" I look forward to going next to Paradiso!

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