I have a Vlog on YouTube, "BITS_OF_MY_LIFE" -
http://www.youtube.com/ephemeral8 where I document my life for the last 3
years.( More than 40000 video clips). It's my digital avatar located in
cyberspace superposition. It will remain there for an endless period of Time
for the future generation.
The BITS are the MEME for further construction \deconstruction of net
audiovisual mutual memory sequences... It's a form of immortality :-)
Avi.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:55 AM
To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Around Simulation II - Simulated Senses
and the Un-Simulatable
hello all!
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a)
<jenniferkanary@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What about death in literature, death in imagination, is that a form
> of simulation? If imagination is a form of simulation, then the limits
> of the un-simulatable might be found there?
and maybe death and after death can be imaginatively simulated, after all,
like in
http://www.artisopensource.net/2008/01/15/dead-on-second-life/
in which 3 artificial intelligences, fed with the original texts that Karl
Marx, Franz Kafka and Coco Chanel left us, have been embodied in autonomous
avatars on Second Life (walking around, choosing who/what to interact with,
etc completely on their own, according to behavioural algorithms built
around the characters' personality).
This is a kind of simulation that interested me a lot, as it sits across the
formal dimensions of systems theory and the poetical re-enactment of
processes (or people! :) ): while there is a formal, scientific based
approach in the design and definition of the systems defining behaviour and
expression of the re-embodied-avatars, there also is the suggestion of how
people never, actually, die, continuing their lives in the memories,
imaginaries, sensations of the people who knew them (and this is actually a
really complex and totally insightful simulation of a human being).
In more than one way they are completely alive, not dead, living in a
continuous multi-authored simulation based on the "material" (texts,
experiences, relationships...) that they left behind, and on a multitude of
interpretations.
ciao!
salvatore
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