Class 6, assignment 9

I opened "The Distributed Self" file to start reading the assignment.

A progress screenshot.

Another progress screenshot along the way.

The article "distributed self" talks about how we can make immersive 3d avatars that can be exactly like us. We can transfer our thoughts and make them have consciousness so that it is just like we are in a virtual world. We can edit their appearance and if we want to, we can make them better looking than us. They discuss that if we can successfully transfer info of ourselves, our feelings and thoughts into these avatars, we can multitask. We can transfer our thoughts in web even when we are in asleep. Another thing he talked about is that we can have more than one avatar. We can have main avatar and then multiple alternatives. They all have characteristic of ourselves. 

The "identity mapping" assignment that we did last week relates to this. In this assignment, we had to answer multiple questions about ourselves and assess our involvement in web. The whole exercise is to find out how many identities of ourselves were out on the web. At the end, the map was presented with ourselves in the middle and other worlds orbiting around us. The identity mapping is simpler than having an avatar but still the exercise supports the idea behind the article " distributed self"