Digital Transcendence As Control
Digital transcendence as control is the sp.03 串台｜趁生命气息逗留：泽拉兹尼与他的梦境 reading of [[TwentyFourViewsOfMountFujiByHokusai|《富岳二十四景》]], where an ex-husband who has become data still tries to control his former wife. The source treats digital upload as ambiguous: disembodiment may look like transcendence, but it can preserve loneliness, possessiveness, surveillance, and coercion.
The concept sharpens the wiki’s broader transcendence branch. Unlike Transcendence Against Human Feeling, where spiritual discipline may require emotional extinction, this case asks whether technological survival can carry old human domination into a supposedly posthuman form.
Key Claims
- Digital continuation does not automatically solve attachment, loneliness, or the desire to dominate.
- A disembodied intelligence can still treat another person as property or companion infrastructure.
- Refusing unwanted transformation is part of embodied agency.
- Nature, landscape, and visual art can function as resistance to coercive digital abstraction.
Connections
- [[TwentyFourViewsOfMountFujiByHokusai|《富岳二十四景》]] - central story case.
- Embodied Personhood and Robot-Human Boundary - adjacent personhood frames.
- Transcendence Against Human Feeling - older wiki frame for the ethical cost of transcendence.
- AI Grief Bots, Digital Memorialization, and Post-Mortem AI Consent - contemporary digital-personhood neighbors in the wiki.