Jose Antonio Vargas has an excellent piece in today’s Washington Post on how Virtual Reality Prepares Soldiers for Real War. More and more, the military used video games – particularly first person shooters – to prepare soldiers for actual combat. More and more young men are attracted to the military because of combat video games. Many active duty soldiers compare their real life combat experiences to their gaming experiences and feel the real war work is an extension of the gaming or at the least the gaming prepared them to react immediately in their real life encounters. The comment by retired Marine Col. Gary W. Anderson, former chief of staff of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, that today’s soldiers, having grown up with first-person shooter games long before they joined the military, are the new Spartans is very inciteful and seems to be exactly part of what these young men are experience . . . albeit, perhaps less intentionally as in Spartan culture.
The idea that simulations hone skills is an important one, particularly given what we now know about mirror neurons which imply that even observed skills enhance observer skill use but when someone has empathy or experiential emotional involvement in the activity or simulation it becomes even more powerful. This obviously relates to what I do with experiential trance, albeit I’ve never worked with someone for soldiering skills or combat (actually, I would be very cautious about experiential trance methods for such training unless one follows the safety precautions I’ve discussed here before). Experiential trance added to gaming makes the experience seem very very real so combat games would be more realitstic at not only the visual level (stereoscopic gaming helps that) but also at the emotionally experienced level.
Vicarious experience can be very powerful and experiential trance based simulations more so. I am currently unaware of anyone using experiential trance in this context but would imagine it would be helpful as long as the safeguards are in place and the experience is monitored by an appropriately qualified individual. Rider suggestions would be very important. I would not reccommend that sort of program at this time unless it were designed with those riders and safeguards in mind.
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