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Avatars and Nonplayer Characters
Henry Frankenstein: Look! It’s moving. It’s alive. It’s alive... It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive,
it’salive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!
Victor Moritz: Henry—in the name of God!
Henry Frankenstein: Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!
Frankenstein, Universal Pictures, 1931, screenplay by John L. Balderston
12.1 AVATARS AND OUR SENSE OF SELF
Your avatar, no matter what manifestation you choose—human gure, re-breathing dragon, or anime
doll—is the center of your experience in the virtual world. As a human being with a self-reective mind
capable of observing your own ...