{"id":149731,"date":"2022-11-08T18:05:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=149731"},"modified":"2022-11-08T18:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:05:23","slug":"digital-doubles-and-second-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/digital-doubles-and-second-selves","title":{"rendered":"Digital Doubles and Second Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This time I come to talk about a new concept in this Age of Artificial Intelligence and the already insipid world of Social Networks. Initially, quite a few years ago, I named it \u201cCounterpart\u201d (long before the TV series \u201cCounterpart\u201d and \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d, or even the movie \u201cTranscendence\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the essence of the ETER9 Project that was taking shape in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years and also with the evolution of technologies \u2014 and of the human being himself \u2014, the concept \u201cCounterpart\u201d has been getting better and, with each passing day, it makes more sense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine a purely digital receptacle with the basics inside, like that Intermediate Software (BIOS<sup>(1)<\/sup>) that computers have between the Hardware and the Operating System. That receptacle waits for you. One way or another, it waits patiently for you, as if waiting for a Soul to come alive in the ether of digital existence.<\/p><div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/digital-doubles-and-second-selves\">Continue reading \u201cDigital Doubles and Second Selves\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time I come to talk about a new concept in this Age of Artificial Intelligence and the already insipid world of Social Networks. Initially, quite a few years ago, I named it \u201cCounterpart\u201d (long before the TV series \u201cCounterpart\u201d and \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d, or even the movie \u201cTranscendence\u201d). It was the essence of the ETER9 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1498,1470,1502,1523,1499,385,20,41,1522,418,269,1909,47,1500,6,64,1629,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-automation","category-big-data","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-evolution","category-futurism","category-information-science","category-innovation","category-internet","category-life-extension","category-machine-learning","category-neuroscience","category-posthumanism","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-software","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149734,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149731\/revisions\/149734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}