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Digital Souls - A Philosophy of Online Death (Hardcover)
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Digital Souls - A Philosophy of Online Death (Hardcover)
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Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how
many Facebook profiles belong to dead users but in 2012 the figure
was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital
souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to
persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the
topic, despite their perennial focus on death as a unique dimension
of human existence. Until now. Drawing on ongoing philosophical
debates, Digital Souls claims that the digital dead are objects
that should be treated with loving regard and that we have a moral
duty towards. Modern technology helps them to persist in various
ways, while also making them vulnerable to new forms of
exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of
questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, the moral
status of digital remains and the threat posed by AI-driven avatars
of dead people. In the digital era, it seems we must all re-learn
how to live with the dead.
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