Well targeted article Deepak, it certainly seems to have jolted responses from a lot of folk, thanks for posting.
Metaverse related stuff is something I've studied for a number of years now, even at PhD level, and as my mum and only carer was certified as mentally ill (Bless her soul), I am intimately familiar with mental illness also.
So I too see the value in it, I especially identified with the statement that use of a Metaverse can provide at least some of the benefits of meditation.
But most of the criticisms I see in the comments here too are valid, because as yet all metaverses we know are profit driven, and all of these criticisms apply to profit driven metaverses specifically, they do not apply to a non-profit system, but most folk don't realise that yet.
Things change completely when we go to a non-profit metaverse, which is only possible by solar power, I believe.
The amount of change that makes is worthy of a whole series of articles itself, in seven years of study, new things are still becoming apparent to me.
Even better, when we see such a system, we will very quickly extrapolate its results to the real world, as in effect a metaverse is simply a model of the real world with some virtual extensions, in simulation.
So everything can be prototyped in a virtual world, before it is tried in the real world.
We will learn lots from that, I believe
