Digital Souls
Subtitle: A Philosophy of Online Death
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: February 20, 2021
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781350139145
Description: "Social media is full of dead people. What should we do with all these digital souls? Can we delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Patrick Stokes claims that we have a moral duty towards the digital dead. Modern technology helps them to persist in various ways, but - with such developments as AI-driven chatbots simulating the dead - it also makes them vulnerable to new forms of exploitation and abuse. This provocative book explores a range of questions about the nature of death, identity, grief, and the moral status of digital remains"--