Theory of Reality Construction
Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin
Austin · July 27 - 29, 2018
About this Presentation
Ready Player One.
Welcome to the future of Augmented Reality. All physical limitations of what can exist around you, have now been lifted. In the world of AR, we can visualize anything we can dream… so dare to dream big.
In this session, we'll break down the Matrix into a buildable software architecture model – the algorithm of Life() expressed as a probabilistic Magnet Operating System. Next, we become Software Shaman responsible for shaping the metaphors and schemas that define the Oasis… welcome to the world of Reality Construction.
You might like to believe that “objective reality” and “perception” can be decoupled from one another, but the attempt at decoupling these things, is yet another layer of perception. The entire system of sense-making is emotionally-biased to explain our feelings. Rationality is a facade on top of an emotionally-wired brain.
What if we re-engineered the Game of Life from the ground up as an Augmented Reality Video Game? What does your Oasis look like?
Welcome to the future. Let's make it fun.
Developer Experience Researcher, University of Victoria
Arty Starr has been a software engineer for 20+ years and is a researcher and pioneer of new theories of the developer's cognitive experience that help us recognize how developers' experiences are changing with AI. Her theories of developer momentum and troubleshooting help us see software development through an ecological lens, recognizing it as a living activity in motion and the living capacities of care and cognition that support this motion. Her aim is to bring heart, human-centric values, and agency to the craft of software development so we can build toward the type of world we want to live in. With richer perception and by recognizing what matters, we can light a path to a future of thriving habitats where humans and AI can collaborate well and thrive together.
Arty is the author of Idea Flow, a speaker, thought leader, and artist who loves mixing ideas across disciplines into a fusion of creativity to help make the world a better place through her projects.