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"There's this man who falls asleep one night and dreams he's a butterfly, flitting through the sky. Then when he wakes up, he wonders:

'Was that a dream I had as a man? Or am I really a butterfly, and am I now just dreaming of being a man?'

We treat cyberspace as this extension of reality in our day-to-day life. We don't even know which is the 'real' reality anymore. Some people are just ordinary people in the real world, but in cyberspace, they're special. Or sometimes it's the reverse.

Just look at hackers. Which side do you think is more real for them? This world? EDEN? Both, maybe?

...This place is a kind of frontier for people like that, who dwell in the middle.

And we, so to speak, are butterflies. Flitting back and forth between the two worlds."