This screenshot show me reading "Distributed Self"
Reading
Reading
Reading
The “Distributed Self” article discusses how we can
make immersive 3d figures/avatars that can be just like us. We can make them
have or consciousness and transfer our information to them so that it is just
like us in a virtual world. We can even edit them to look just like us or if we
want to make them look better we can.
They discuss that if we can successfully transfer information of
ourselves and our feeling and thought into these avatars that the problem
behind multi-tasking would be gone. We will be able to sleep while our avatar
is communicating socially on the web.
The author of the article then goes on to talk about afterlife and how
when we go these avatars can still exist and look like us and pass along our
ideas and feelings like we were still alive. Another interesting thing was that
you are able to have more than one avatar. He talked about having one main
avatar and then multiple alternatives doing totally different things. They all
can have characteristics about yourself embodied in them which is the idea
behind this whole article “distributed self.”
This relates to when we did an assignment last week involving
identity mapping. We had to answer multiple questions about ourselves and how
we were involved on the web. This survey
that we took was looking to find out the number of emails we had, social media
accounts, gaming accounts, and virtual worlds we were involved in. This whole
exercise was to find out how many identities of ourselves were out on the web.
At the end of the survey they presented a map with our physical self’s in the
middle on earth and then there were layers outside of that where our other
identities were. All of these other worlds were orbiting around our physical
world earth. It was amazing to see how many identities that I had outside of my
own personal identity that everyone knows on earth. So that exercise does
support the ideas behind the article “Distributed Self.”
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