The forms of magical reality, ancient to humanity's beginnings, shape our vision in the unbounded void of elelctronic potential. We are at about the same stage with cyberspace as our primary antecedants were with language and the world into which they grew when cultures were still at isolated stages. To think requires the linguistic distinction of figure and ground, the detection of the object, and it is difference which enables this detection. Discontinuity is what we see, not the narrative. Language is the encoding of what we see, these differences.
Language leads to consciousness.
Ritual is the cultural storage of this encoding into mythology, and Pesce suggests ritual is the language of cyberspace. Immersion is enveloping, a 360degree surround, physical rather than cognitive. Different from the absorption we have in a book or the cinema. For Nechvatal immersion in a VR work implies a unified total space, an homogeneous world without external distraction, striving to be a consumate harmonious whole. He suggests that as the data is consistent with the system of the robot, there is so much data that it is impossible to analyse it all.