元宇宙与数字化未来的哲学追问

Reflection on the Metaverse and the Digital Future from the Perspective of the Philosophy of Technology

“元宇宙”是什么?尽管对其技术实现方式尚在探索之中,但它大致体现了当前人们所能构想出的数字化未来的总体愿景。在乐观的倡导者看来,随着元宇宙的发展,人们未来将在3D虚拟世界中体验大多数的生活方式,社交、购物、工作、学习、旅游等日常活动的方式和空间将随之嬗变。在由此所构想的情境中,虚拟现实、增强现实、混合现实、人工智能与脑机接口等具有未来主义色彩的技术将为人们的体验和互动提供全新的基础,元宇宙中的互动将全面模拟物理世界中的视觉、听觉.

The metaverse has both “heavy” and “imaginary” characteristics,together promising an unknown contextual architecture for the public,but with unclear concepts. It also tries to achieve an open architecture with incompleteness,but it cannot realize the interaction between human and context. Because of the “digital twin” dilemma,the meta-universe cannot become “another universe ”. To this point,the metaverse offers a virtual experience frontier through immersion and interactivity generated through convergence technology. In addition,when artificial intelligence is the key supporting the technology of the metaverse,it generates three-dimensional real-existence risks,which are manifested in three kinds of doubts: security,cognition,and morality. Finally,a responsible metaverse governance framework is constructed through three considerations: collective responsibility,a reality-based foundation,and virtual-real co-governance.