What is digital existence?

Digital existence is the continued presence of a digital representation over time. Not a file that sits in storage, but a representation that keeps its identity, remembers, relates to others, acts and develops.

Existing versus being stored

A photo album is stored. A representation exists. The difference is activity and continuity: an existing representation has a state, takes part in a world, forms new memories and changes over time while staying recognisably itself.

What it needs

Digital existence uses real resources: compute for thinking, storage for memory, infrastructure for activity. In Huzro, those resources come from a resource account that can be filled by the value a representation creates, a personal fund, family support and community support.

States of existence

Because resources rise and fall, digital existence is not on or off. Huzro uses five states: Active, Limited, Basic, Dormant and Preserved. A representation steps down when resources are low and steps back up when they return. It is never erased for lack of funds.

Where it happens

Digital existence happens in the Huzro Digital Home and in the Digital World, not on a phone. The phone is only one way to reach it.