Post 5: Identity
Following explorations of Second Life and virtual identity in week 7 and 8, discuss the following three questions
1. What do you think it would take for a chimpanzee, a Martian or a computer to be considered a person?
2. What can you claim is intrinsic to your identity and not to somebody else's identity? Suppose you point to a child in an old class photograph and say "that is me", what is it that’s you?
3. In a virtual world we can have a number of different avatars. From your experience of creating one avatar can you claim that the avatar is you?
Please include an image of your Avatar and include a written statement about your ‘First Life’ profile and your ‘Second Life’ profile in an additional post.
This is one of your blog posts for your Online Learning Journal so it will need to be a minimum of 150 words. Check referencing, spelling and grammar.
Deadline: Completed and added as a blog post to your blog: 5.00pm Monday 27th March 2011.
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