caa a22 4500 445838221 CHVBK 20180317145336.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11023-011-9255-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11023-011-9255-x Hongladarom Soraj Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand aut Personal Identity and the Self in the Online and Offline World [Elektronische Daten] [Soraj Hongladarom] The emergence of social networking sites has created a problem of how the self is to be understood in the online world. As these sites are social, they relate someone with others in a network. Thus there seems to emerge a new kind of self which exists in the online world. Accounting for the online self here also has implications on how the self in the outside world should be understood. It is argued that, as the use of online social media has become more widespread, the line between the two kinds of self is becoming fuzzier. Furthermore, there seems to be a fusion between the online and the offline selves, which reflects the view that reality itself is informational. Ultimately speaking, both kinds of selves do not have any essence, i.e., any characteristic inherent to them that serves to show that these selves are what they are and none other. Instead an externalist account of the identity of the self is offered that locates the identity in question in the self's relations with other selves as well as other events and objects. This account can both be used to explain the nature of the self both in the online and the offline worlds. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Self nationallicence Social networking media nationallicence Metaphysics nationallicence Virtual world nationallicence Identity nationallicence Externalism nationallicence Buddhism nationallicence Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/4(2011-11-01), 533-548 0924-6495 21:4<533 2011 21 11023 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9255-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-011-9255-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hongladarom Soraj Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Minds and Machines Springer Netherlands 21/4(2011-11-01), 533-548 0924-6495 21:4<533 2011 21 11023 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer