Metaverse and the Oriental Cosmology

March 29, 2025

It has already been about 20 years since we moved away from the PC-based Internet and entered the mobile era, and many technologies have emerged during that time.

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It seems like only yesterday that we were talking about the arrival of the ubiquitous era in the early 2000s, but a few years ago, the term “the 4th industrial revolution” was being used, and now, along with ESG management, the metaverse is said to be the trend.

The metaverse is not limited to games, but is expressed as another self that is active in the real world and the virtual world coexisting.

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In other words, it goes beyond having a virtual home in cyberspace like Cyworld in the past or SNS today, and it refers to a virtual space where a person does not physically exist in that space but acts as a substitute for me.

The movie The Island, which talked about cloned humans, had real people, but this metaverse is a place where real people coexist with virtual people and also control and order them to do things, so it can also be called an avatar, a human that replaces me.

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In the oriental cosmology, the Big Bang that announced the beginning of the universe is seen as the Taegeuk and divided into 450 cases to express each organic relationship, but I cannot find a case that represents me in a virtual space like this metaverse.

Also, if you look at the life status chart, you can see that it has continued as a chain from birth to the present.

There are many ways to express yourself, and there are many ways to influence without revealing yourself physically, so it can be seen as a source of silence or as a Yonghoe name.

However, this technology can also be seen as a phenomenon that appears as a technology that cannot control itself like a bucket overflowing in a rapidly changing world like the present, and I think that the Internet was originally a virtual space without a physical body, and it is nothing more than an entity that operates within it.​

It is certain that this metaverse will not be a new technology that will change the world, but will play a role of coexistence or complementary goods. Also, when viewed as an extension of existing technologies, it is not necessary to make a fuss about it as a passing technology.


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