Digital Immortality: Conceptual Foundations and Technological Approaches
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Digital immortality is commonly defined as the extension of a person’s digital presence beyondphysical death. Savin-Baden and colleagues define it as “the continuation of an active or passivedigital presence after death” (Savin-Baden et al., 2017). Academic research frames thisconcept through two modes: a passive (one-way) digital legacy (e.g. memorialized profiles) andan active (two-way) digital persona that can interact posthumously. This paper reviewspeer-reviewed and scholarly sources on how digital immortality is pursued. Key approachesinclude preserving and curating one’s personal data, modeling personality via artificialintelligence, creating interactive avatars or chatbots, and advanced ideas like mind uploading anddigital twins. Grounded in recent expert literature, we outline both the conceptual definitions andthe technical mechanisms that researchers have developed or proposed to achieve digitalimmortality, without engaging in unfounded speculation.
Author: Issa, Nour
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7081948327
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