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October 18, 2004
Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror
"The purpose of a mirror is to reflect."
Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror is a "game" published in 1985 by Electronic Arts. It's a "game" only in the sense that no one can otherwise make heads or tails of it - there is no winning, no losing, no scoring. It is, however, deeply interactive, multi-media (of sorts), and hypertextual. Each play of the game results in a mind map - of you, your family, oyour friends, of a leader in history, your pet cat.
The vendor observed "Mind Mirror allows the performer to digitize (scope) any thought, compare it with other thoughts and compare thoughts with others, and to engage in simulation of various roles." MobyGames classified it as a Zen / Meditative sport.
Popularly considered "abandonedware", a 16 page "user manual" (pdf) and an executable MS-DOS version (zip) can be downloaded from The Underdogs.
Links:
Bonesy Jones, Timothy Leary: biography, bibliography, filmography, links, PosSubCulture Bibliography Project, 2001.
Sean Kearney, tim.html,The Increasing Intelligence Project, 2004.
Scott Thomas, Alter Egos and Mind Mirror, Compute Magazine, 1987.
Posted by sjc at October 18, 2004 9:41 AM
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