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| Metaverse and “embodied” cognition |
| SU Jiajia1, YE Haosheng2 |
1 College of Psychology, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004;
2 School of Education, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006 |
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Abstract Since the era of the Axis, “metaverse” can be regarded as the birth of human civilization, and the ultimate goal is to create a new “disembodied” civilization form. The question consciousness is that how do we understand the relationship between the metaverse and the human “body”. In this paper, metaverse is defined as a cognitive revolution. From the perspective of cognitive science, the body forms of metaverse civilization can be divided into three levels： At the first level, “disembodied metaverse” suggests that metaverse is a combination of Mars immigrants and brain-computer interface. At the second level, “embodied metaverse” holds that metaverse is a “embodied internet” integrating biological body, technological body and environmental body. At the third level, “enactive metaverse” believes that metaverse should be combined with “enactive cognition”, and the body should be regarded as the “the body of sense-making”. And the linkage between the value of “decentralization” in the civilization layer of metaverse and the “blockchain technology” in the science and technology layer of metaverse will help solve the problem of sense-making in metaverse civilization. It is worth noting that the “predictive processing model” emphasizes that the brain is an active predictive engine, and the brain, body and environment are a trinity dynamic system, which will provide programmatic guiding significance for the future construction of metaverse civilization. Finally, this paper discusses whether metaverse can end “body-mind dualism of Descartes”, and finds that although it can bring a new perspective to the body-mind problem, whether it can be solved is still unknown. The only certainty is that the key to the “civilization” of metaverse lies in the mystery of the human “body”.
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