Experiment : To create a Persona Non Grata that exists only in the virtual world. Dialog would consist of insightful and pithy comments on the existential nature of Unreality. Identity to be manufactured through the creation of digital effluvia and given cultural significance through its distribution on obvious celebrity-whoring meme factories such as YouTube and Twitter (all of course, delivered from the Virtual).
Unlike Neo, the protagonist portrayed in this experiment does NOT have SKiLLZ (unless augmented indirectly through an AimBOT) and is NOT the expression of some manifest destiny clothed with messianic overtones. He/she is however, imbued with the super-human capacity for being able to be completely NON-EXISTENT (meaning the persona has the ability to exist two-dimensionally in the confines of the imagination of believers).
Would the creation of this meta-identity qualify for one of Hofstadter's self-referential "Strange Loops"? At what point does the persona become "real", or more importantly "meaningful"?
How long before the need for masturbatory celebrity gratification forces the creator to reveal his/her true identity? Is the creation of such a persona a subconscious cry for celebrity in the mind of the creator?
Any takers?



