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- exists as an Avatar (second life)
- the data are stored on a material data memory
- virtual life is powerless without the possiiblity of material influence
- as data protection for material biological life
- as a fantasy product
- as a replacement for biological life
- as pre- or intermediate stage for physical artificial life (robot)
- needs no material physical body
- also virtual life needs energy
- is dependent on functioning data memory and datatransfer
- virtual life could be immortal
- virtual life could be copied and multiplied
- virtual life can be only seen and heard at present
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- Avatars in second life
- Lara Croft
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- Which possibilities can virtual life offer?
- Does virtual life take place only in intenet-forums and computer games?
- Is the soul a form of virtual life?
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- the concept of immortality we find in all traditional religions
- different kinds of immortality
- metaphysical immortality (soul, ...)
- transfer of or awareness, thoughts to a virtual world
- transfer of our being, awareness, thoughts to a physical system (computer, robot, ...)
- virtual life can be used to create maximal living experience
- necessary is an ethics for the virtual world - like in the real world
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- If the virtual world collapses and virtual entities are lost, has murder been committed? genocide?
Links Bearbeiten
- Do Humanlike Machines Deserve Human Rights? http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/17-02/st_essay
- forum-artificial intelligence http://aidreams.co.uk/forum/index.php