本研究探讨了庄子的美学概念在现代数字环境，尤其是元宇宙中的应用。随着虚拟现实（VR）和增强现实（AR）技术的发展，元宇宙(metaverse)作为一个超越物理现实的数字时空，为用户提供了前所未有的沉浸式体验和新的存在方式。在这种背景下，重新审视庄子的哲学思想，尤其是他的美学理念，具有重要意义。 庄子的美学核心思想强调与自然的和谐、无为自然以及通过想象力超越现实和梦境之间的边界。在元宇宙中，用户得以摆脱物理现实的限制，自由探索新的数字世界，这与庄子提倡的自然之道相契合。庄子的无为自然思想意味着人类应顺应自然，而非干预自然。这一思想在元宇宙中的体现是，用户可以在无外界干预的情况下自由探索虚拟环境，享受自然的数字化体验。 此外，庄子关于相对性的哲学观点也在元宇宙中得到了体现。庄子主张万物皆相对，没有绝对的存在或身份。在元宇宙中，用户通过虚拟形象和身份的变化，能够体验到身份的流动性和相对性，突破了现实中的身份界限。这一过程使用户能够自由表达多种身份，探索不同的自我存在方式，这与庄子提出的“流动性自我”相一致。 庄子美学中的想象力概念同样在元宇宙中扮演着重要角色。用户通过虚拟技术创造出超越物理现实的数字世界，并在其中进行沉浸式体验。这种超现实的体验让用户得以超越传统的物理局限，探索更广阔的虚拟空间，类似于庄子所描绘的梦境与现实交错的场景，体现了庄子“庄周梦蝶”中的哲学思考。 综上所述，本研究通过比较分析庄子的美学思想与元宇宙中的数字体验，展示了庄子的哲学在数字时代中的适用性和现代意义。庄子的无为自然、相对性和想象力等核心理念为理解元宇宙中的超现实体验和身份流动提供了理论框架，并为进一步研究数字时代的人类体验与技术互动提供了哲学基础。
This paper explores the application of Zhuangzi’s aesthetic concepts within modern digital environments such as the metaverse. The metaverse, enabled by virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), offers users an immersive experience beyond physical reality, facilitating new forms of social interaction and ways of existing. This study examines how Zhuangzi’s thoughts on harmony with nature, effortless action (wu wei), imagination, and the blurring of the boundaries between reality and dreams can be reinterpreted in the metaverse context. Zhuangzi’s concept of “effortless action” aligns closely with how users navigate and discover themselves in the metaverse without artificial constraints, reflecting his ideals of natural existence. The freedom from physical constraints in the metaverse allows users to explore and experience in ways that resonate with Zhuangzi’s flow of natural being. His emphasis on imagination plays a crucial role in the metaverse, enabling users to create and immerse in new digital worlds, thereby experiencing the surreal beyond physical reality. Moreover, the paper discusses the relativity of self in the metaverse, connecting it with Zhuangzi’s ideas. The metaverse allows users to experiment with and express multiple identities, akin to Zhuangzi’s views on the fluid and ever-changing self. Users can represent themselves through avatars in diverse ways, forming new types of social relations that are hard to achieve in physical reality, thus reinterpreting Zhuangzi’s concept of a fluid self for the digital age. The study posits that Zhuangzi’s aesthetic perspective provides a crucial theoretical framework for understanding user experiences within the metaverse, analyzing how the metaverse reshapes human existence and experience in contemporary society. This philosophical approach offers insights into the essence of human experiences and existence in the era of the metaverse, contributing to a deeper understanding of the interactions between humans and technology in the digital age. Particularly, immersive and surreal experiences within the metaverse echo Zhuangzi’s philosophical reflections, allowing users to explore new forms of existence by dismantling the boundaries between reality and dreams. The paper underscores the significant contribution of integrating Zhuangzi’s aesthetics with the metaverse to expanding aesthetic thought in the digital age, laying a foundation for philosophical discussions in future metaverse environments.
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