Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories
In the last decades of the 20th century we have seen media theories and cognitive sciences grow, mature and reach their pinnacles by analysing, each from their own disciplinary perspective, two of the same core phenomena: that of media as the environment, transmitter and creator of stimuli,...
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| description | In the last decades of the 20th century we have seen media theories and
cognitive sciences grow, mature and reach their pinnacles by analysing, each
from their own disciplinary perspective, two of the same core phenomena:
that of media as the environment, transmitter and creator of stimuli, and
that of embodied human mind as the stimuli receiver, interpreter,
experiencer, and also how both are affected by each other. Even though
treating a range of very similar problems and coming to similar conclusions,
this still has not brought these two disciplines closer together or resulted
in their interdisciplinary approach. They did coalesce in regards to
traditional media such as film, but more points of connection are needed for
untangling interactive and immersive media environments and their effects on
human cognition, action, and perception. With the rise of VR and VR-like
systems, especially as they start to evolve into the Metaverse as their main
platform of interconnectivity, the tissue of the body becomes almost
physically intertwined with that of the virtual surrounding it inhabits
through immersion. Simultaneously, the interest in these disciplines arises
anew, and especially the need to use their concepts in an interdisciplinary
way. This paper’s main interest is to bring these disciplines together in
problematising the position of a physical body and its sensory-motor
capabilities and their development within synthetic surroundings as
Metaverse and anticipate potential downsides of Metaverse’s uncontrolled
growth. We will do so also by looking into Metaverse as an
artificial-life-like phenomenon, following artificial-life rules and
evolving a completely new ‘corporeality’, a body which is completely adapted
to virtual spaces. We call this body the Dry Body, an entity sharing
cognitive resources with the physical body it is not a physical part of, but
has to extend to. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2207fb678dd44555bb5f41a31f7302c72022-12-22T03:40:36ZdeuInstitute for Philosophy and Social Theory, BelgradeFilozofija i Društvo0353-57382334-85772022-01-0133232634510.2298/FID2202326U0353-57382202326UEmbodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theoriesUspenski Ivana0Guga Jelena1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8180-3408Insights and Channel Planning, McCann, GermanyUniversity of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social TheoryIn the last decades of the 20th century we have seen media theories and cognitive sciences grow, mature and reach their pinnacles by analysing, each from their own disciplinary perspective, two of the same core phenomena: that of media as the environment, transmitter and creator of stimuli, and that of embodied human mind as the stimuli receiver, interpreter, experiencer, and also how both are affected by each other. Even though treating a range of very similar problems and coming to similar conclusions, this still has not brought these two disciplines closer together or resulted in their interdisciplinary approach. They did coalesce in regards to traditional media such as film, but more points of connection are needed for untangling interactive and immersive media environments and their effects on human cognition, action, and perception. With the rise of VR and VR-like systems, especially as they start to evolve into the Metaverse as their main platform of interconnectivity, the tissue of the body becomes almost physically intertwined with that of the virtual surrounding it inhabits through immersion. Simultaneously, the interest in these disciplines arises anew, and especially the need to use their concepts in an interdisciplinary way. This paper’s main interest is to bring these disciplines together in problematising the position of a physical body and its sensory-motor capabilities and their development within synthetic surroundings as Metaverse and anticipate potential downsides of Metaverse’s uncontrolled growth. We will do so also by looking into Metaverse as an artificial-life-like phenomenon, following artificial-life rules and evolving a completely new ‘corporeality’, a body which is completely adapted to virtual spaces. We call this body the Dry Body, an entity sharing cognitive resources with the physical body it is not a physical part of, but has to extend to.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2022/0353-57382202326U.pdf4e cognitionimmersive vrmetaversealifedry bodies (dbs)evolutionary algorithms |
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| title | Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories |
| title_full | Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories |
| title_fullStr | Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories |
| title_short | Embodying Metaverse as artificial life: At the intersection of media and 4E cognition theories |
| title_sort | embodying metaverse as artificial life at the intersection of media and 4e cognition theories |
| topic | 4e cognition immersive vr metaverse alife dry bodies (dbs) evolutionary algorithms |
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