Karma DID Method: Buddhist Approach to Identity
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Karma DID Method: Buddhist Approach to Identity
Wednesday Lunch Session
Convener: Heather Vescent
Notes-taker(s): Michael Becker
Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:
Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:
Team discussed the precepts of [Tibetan] Buddhism to see how it might align thoughts on Identity
Questions raised?
- If there is no persistent “I”, what does this mean for Identity management? [There is no singular identity, it is all about context]
- What is identity?
- Is an identity a construct of attributes? Some say no.
- Is identity a collection of mapped experiences?
- Is identity a collection of relationships? Should relationship be the first “class” object for identity?
- How does one define self? The I?
- Can views of class or attribute be used designate an identity
- Should identity primarily deal with [dynamic] relationships and not specific things?
The team discussed a number of identity thought experiments/frameworks
- Ship of Theseus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
- The Trade-Off: The Four Noble Truths and Five-fold Path to Digital Sovereignty, https://identitypraxis.com/2018/06/26/the-trade-off/
- The Five-fold path to digital sovereignty, https://identitypraxis.com/2019/04/27/youre-being-scored-what-it-means-for-your-privacy/
- Liebnets view of identity, two balls equally the same, same attributes? are the different balls? Is the only difference positioning?
- Alan Westin framework of Privacy
- Privacy Fundamentalists; Privacy Pragmatics; Unconcerned
- Daniel Solove, Taxonomy of Privacy
- Becker 7 states of privacy awareness - unaware, helpless, indifferent, apathetic, impaired, empowered, enlightened
- Comment: the emotional state one manifests is based in context
