Ritual

What is the role of routine and behavior modifying systems within commonly used interfaces? Ritual forms can be an alternative option to how we might interface bringing consciousness to ways of being that we slip and slide in and out of. Jaron Lanier has suggested we move towards non-behaviour modifying systems pointing out the difference between a magician and a charlatan as that a magician isn’t trying to trick you. She/he may even tell you the trick, unlike a charlatan. Knowing how it works actually makes it more interesting and engaging. This is not a trick, it is a purposeful suspension of disbelief. Expanded interface as a means to help us be as we are rather than forcing us to become complicit and entranced.