元宇宙中的数字记忆:“虚拟数字人”的数字记忆价值

Digital Memory&Metaverse:The Value of Digital Memory for Virtual Digital Human

元宇宙的诞生标志着虚拟世界从想象走向现实,人类迎来了一个全新的空间。作为现实世界的延伸和映射,“虚拟数字人”也意味着一种新的生命形态的诞生。文章在虚拟数字人的数字记忆概念模型——“记忆数字人”的基础上,讨论元宇宙中“真人数字人”(也即真人“虚拟化身”)的数字记忆建构与数字身份认同和价值体系的建构问题。真人数字人是未来元宇宙世界中的行为主体,既具有现实世界真人的身份信息,也具有作为数字的虚拟化身可以不断更新和迭代的特征。当真人数字人相关的资源集和数据集在元宇宙中不断生长且作为其“数字记忆”被独立看待,并成为可保存、可追溯、可计算、可评价、可循证的对象时,真人数字人的数字身份也就完成了从“媒介”到“对象”的超越和转变,成为记忆数字人。尽管理想中元宇宙的世界里所记录的一切都可追溯,不可篡改,但实际上从源头诞生的那一刻开始,数字记忆的主体——人本身和社会就会对其进行有意识和无意识的建构。无论如何,在元宇宙全新的记忆图景中,真人数字人的数字记忆将成为人类在数字世界中获取新的数字身份认同的起点。

The birth of the Metaverse marks the transition of the virtual world from imagination to reality,ushering in a new space for humanity.As an extension and mapping of the real world,the virtual digital human also signifies the birth of a new form of life.Based on the conceptual memory model of the virtual digital human--memory digital human,this paper discusses the building of digital memories and the creation of digital identities and value systems of the“real digital human”(i.e.the avatars for real people)in the meta-universe.As an actor in the future metaverse,a virtual digital being has the identity information of a real person in the real world,as well as the characteristics of being a digital avatar that can be constantly updated and iterated.As the set of resources and data associated with a real digital person grows in the metaverse and is considered independently as his/her“digital memory”,and becomes preservable,traceable,calculable,evaluable and verifiable,the digital identity of a real“digital person”is transformed from a medium to an object and he/she becomes a“memory digital person”.Although everything recorded in the world of the ideal meta-universe is traceable and tamper-proof,in reality the subjects of“digital memory”-people themselves and society-work on the construction of memory,both consciously and unconsciously,from the moment of its birth.In any case,in a new memory image of the metaverse,the digital memory of real“digital people”will be the starting point for a human to acquire a new digital identity in the digital world.