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Digital Life: An Advent of Transhumanism

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The advent of digital technology has not only given a fillip to the growth of science and technology but also has greatly impacted individuals as well as society. Computing scientists are looking for generic frameworks for modelling human like digital entities that are autonomic service providing agents. Social scientists are looking into the impacts digital world makes on human minds. Philosophers are engaged in mapping the journey of humanity into the new world evolving with the immense breakthroughs in science and technology. This chapter presents a generic model of a digital life, reviews works of intelligent agents, discusses on digital life and after life issues; ends with a brief discussion on transhumanism, a philosophical issue raised by seers and thinkers.

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    Hrushikesha Mohanty

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  5. Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada

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Mohanty, H. (2023). Digital Life: An Advent of Transhumanism. In: Morusupalli, R., Dandibhotla, T.S., Atluri, V.V., Windridge, D., Lingras, P., Komati, V.R. (eds) Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence. MIWAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 14078. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36402-0_1

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