數字復活——記億哲學的審視

Digital Resurrection: Assessment from the Perspective of Philosophy of Memory

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

數位復活是利用數位技術、大資料和人工智慧等技術實現的同一性的再現式行為，數位人是一種特殊的數位記憶形式。從語言維度看，語言再現能夠將逝者的聲音和言語方式再現，但是數位語言存在如無法呈現世界經驗，數位主體的語言與理解呈現出分裂、無法再生意義以及非言語行為的單向交流等問題；從影像維度看，圖像再現能夠將逝者的影像呈現，數位圖像數能夠確保整體性的構建，但是卻無法實現道德責任的建構。面對數位影像，我們無法實現對數位親者和數位他者的道德責任。從復活主體看，復活自我、復活他者和復活親者是數位復活基本的三種形式。復活自我的本質是增強意義上的做法，而復活他者則是懷念意義上的做法；復活親者是悼念意義上的做法。

Digital resurrection refers to a representational act involving digital technology, big data, or artificial intelligence in which the digital agent offers a specific form of digital memory. From the linguistic dimension, although language reproduction can imitate the voice and speech styles of the departed, digital reproduction cannot present a lived experience of them. The digital subject, which exhibits a split between language and understanding, may fail to regenerate a clear meaning or unidirectional communication from the animated image of the departed. In terms of the digital agent, ambivalent relationships exist among the three entities of the departed, the self, and the other. Digital resurrection can offer three forms of meaning: an enhanced meaning from the self, the memorial meaning of the other, and a condoling meaning from the departed. Who is the resurrected agent? Who has the digital memory? Who is ethically responsible for the digital data used to create the digital memory? All of these questions should be addressed and discussed.