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Bioethical Issues in Digital Treatment Based on Metaverse Platforms -with a focus on digital twin and privacy-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (42), pp.1~19
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..42.001
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : May 20, 2023
  • Accepted : June 30, 2023
  • Published : June 30, 2023

KIM MOONJEONG ORD ID 1 KIM DO KYONG ORD ID 1

1동아대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this study, we will examine bioethical issues, especially privacy, in digital treatment based on the metaverse platform. First, we review the discussion on the the metaverse and the digital twin, which is most expected to be used in healthcare. In a metaverse, human can be implemented as digital twins composed of body data. In the medical field, body data and body derived data are digitized, measured, stored, and analyzed to become a digital twin. These digital twins become tools for new insights to predict, prevent and treat disease. In the digital twin, which accurately reads all human changes and behaviors in real time and replicates it as it is in the virtual world, even the environment and space in which I live are all data. The digital twin, which interacts with the real self as a replica of the real world, show how much privacy is important. Technology sometimes doesn't care about humans. This is also the reason why in-depth discussions that can improve the essential meaning and value of privacy should be started as soon as possible.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.