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virtual metaverse world and become husband and wife. How is this defined in a legal and social sense? Issues such as marriage, dating, and family in the metaverse will become major ethical issues in the new era.</p><h2 id="199f">The Metaverse Will Bring Structural Risks</h2><p id="f60f"><b>Individuals and families are the basic units of society. </b>In the metaverse era, there will be major changes in individuals and families, and further, there will be major changes and adjustments in the social structure. It is true that the Metaverse can play a huge role in stimulating individuals and social vitality, but it will also bring far-reaching structural shocks and operational risks to society, involving major issues such as social security, political security, and economic security.</p><p id="1f0e"><b>The metaverse could lead to historical nihilism. </b>In the metaverse era, individuals will spend a lot of time in the virtual spiritual world. When their sense of well-being and experience are greatly increased, individuals will have symptoms of “overstimulation”. Instead of focusing on the past, which adds to anxiety and disappointment, they only enjoy the present moment that brings the most immediate, greatest, and highest concentration of pleasure. If everyone is like this, over time, the entire nation will be in crisis. One is that people no longer pay attention to what happened in the past because it burdens memory, occupies brain memory, and is not directly related to current enjoyment. National humiliation days, national holidays, etc., have become relatively unimportant in the metaverse era. Second, people no longer think deeply, because thinking can also bring anxiety and increase the burden on the mind. “Looking up at the starry sky” is no longer important, and the Metaverse can create a beautiful starry sky at will. When individuals enjoy the present and game life in the metaverse society, the future of the nation is worrying, and the competitiveness of the country will also be severely damaged. It is worth noting that this problem and tendency may be more obvious in the people born in the metaverse era (“Metazoic”), at that time, the spiritual and cultural temperament of the country and the nation may be negatively reshaped.</p><p id="701b"><b>The metaverse may deconstruct national histories and cultural self-confidence. </b>The sense of pride and happiness of the Chinese people, to a large extent, comes from the long history and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, as well as the great struggle against imperialism and the construction of a new China since modern times. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “The whole party must more consciously increase self-confidence in the road, theory, system, and culture, and neither take the old road of closure and rigidity, nor take the evil road of changing the flag, maintain political determination, and insist on hard work. To prosper, and always uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics.” In the metaverse space, individuals tend to attribute happiness and pride to the labor and interaction in the virtual space, which are linked to the virtual currency points obtained by virtual labor and the growth of the metaverse level. This kind of rule design will lead to the materialization, vulgarization and parochialization of national emotions and national spirits, and will dissolve the pride and happiness of being a son and daughter of China. The lack of Chinese history and Chinese culture will delay the formation and strengthening of the “four self-confidences”, and cause bad social inertia and demonstration effect. If this situation is left unchecked, after several generations, the concept of the Chinese nation, national history, national culture, etc. will gradually fade away, and the sense of community of the Chinese nation will gradually weaken. To this end, necessary measures must be taken to guard against such false social cognitive tendencies and to ensure that the development of the Metaverse follows the correct value principles.</p><p id="f232"><b>The metaverse may deconstruct state political authority. </b>The real physical society is the fundamental support of the metaverse virtual society. The quality of its development determines the prosperity of the metaverse society. In a real physical society, the political system is the core force driving the development of a country and plays a fundamental role. The Communist Party of China is the leading core of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the institutional guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the metaverse virtual society, a large number of social members will be guided to carry out activities that focus on enjoying the moment and having fun in a timely manner. If this pan-entertainment tendency is not politically guided, the consequences will be quite serious. Over time, it will cause major delusions and logical confusion of individuals, believing that the construction of the real physical society, the national political system, and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are no longer important. After one or two generations, the social temperament will be greatly changed, and egoism will prevail. When everyone only cares about whether they are happy and how to be happier, and no one pays attention to the fundamental real social construction, not only will a social picture of bad money drive out good money will be formed, and the ideal social foundation of socialism and communism will be formed. If it is weakened, the core leadership of the Communist Party of China will be weakened, and the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be delayed.</p><p id="ee50"><b>The Metaverse may lead to capital speculation and financial risks. </b>The logic of capital is a direct cause of the current Metaverse’s ferocity. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, people around the world have been required to reduce unnecessary travel and social life, and the real industry has been severely impacted, but the virtual Internet economy has become hot in the context of epidemic prevention and control. After the era of mobile Internet and social media, Metaverse has become the next outlet for the development of the Internet economy, attracting capital from all walks of life. The current development of the Metaverse in China is still at the stage of concept presupposition, ideological preparation, and prototyping. On December 27, 2021, Baidu released its metaverse product “Xi Rong”. The author believes that the development of the metaverse requires a solid economic foundation, social governance foundation, and social acceptance foundation. In these respects, China has done better and more effective than the West. In other words, the Metaverse has better conditions and foundations for social development in China. However, it should be noted that, driven by capital, the Metaverse may become a place with a high incidence of tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud, and necessary virtual financial supervision is indispensable.</p><p id="02ef"><b>The metaverse is not the end of humanity’s transformation of society. </b>The Metaverse is an enhanced, superimposed, and upgraded version of human society. With the development of the metaverse, the “real + virtual” form of integration will become the new normal of individual social life. On the one hand, the metaverse uses interactive technology to open up the connection between the real world and the virtual world, allowing individuals to perform activities in a larger space. On the other hand, as real world resources (population, material, industry) are continuously invested in the virtual world, people’s spiritual life will become more and more colorful. In fact, since the appearance of smartphones, this trend has already begun to emerge, which is highlighted by the fact that mobile devices will become more and more exciting, highly realistic, virtual and real, and colorful content will be presented to people, which is enough to entertain people. Spend a lot of time every day looking down at your phone. But from the perspective of technological evolution logic, the metaverse only superimposes virtual space on the basis of real society, and does not involve the transformation of physical attributes. That is to say, the metaverse is not the end of technology. There are concepts like “custom universe” or “artificial universe”, which involve modification, transformation, and creation of social and physical attributes. A general trend is that human beings will have more and more voice and control in the transformation of the material and spiritual worlds, which will continue to define individuals, reshape society, and guide human beings. At this stage, Metaverse should be committed to providing high-quality content products to further enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people.</p><h2 id="b3be">Actively promote my country’s Met

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averse Governance</h2><p id="a5df">The author believes that the metaverse may have a huge impact on the individual and social levels. If it is allowed to develop freely, it may breed the risk of loss of control and alienation. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to pre-research metaverse governance.</p><p id="d59f"><b>Adhere to political principles. </b>The socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental institutional guarantee for my country’s achievements in socialist development. As an extension of the real society, the development of the Metaverse in China must also adhere to the direction of socialism and adhere to the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. To do this, two aspects need to be done: the first is the entry of state power into the Metaverse. In the metaverse world, party committees, governments, courts, and banks must be set up to manage individual labor practices in the virtual space. The party committee is responsible for the political security of the Metaverse, the government is responsible for the management of players’ self-organization, and the court is responsible for adjudicating and mediating interpersonal disputes. Effectively manage the metaverse space through political construction. The second is that the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community enters the metaverse. Through the script setting, materials such as Chinese culture, national elements, historical stories, myths and legends, the history of modern national struggles, and the history of the party for a century are incorporated into the metaverse design. Through immersive and participatory experience, players deepen their understanding of the profound, holographic, panoramic, and whole-process understanding of the national history of the grand country, and continuously enhance the “four self-confidences”.</p><p id="b68a"><b>Stick to the principle of content. </b>The script is the core content definition of the Metaverse. The country should set up a special department to strengthen the management of the metaverse script, the most important of which is the content review. First, a compliant metaverse script should set up game functions that prevent individuals from self-isolation, and encourage individuals to interact with other players. Second, a compliant metaverse script should encourage individuals to extensively connect the metaverse with the real society, design player mechanisms, encourage individual activities in the metaverse space, and increase the social and public interests of the real physical society. Third, a compliant metaverse script should have its own dispute mediation measures, based on dynamic and individualized data learning, to predict possible interpersonal disputes and social risk points in advance. Fourth, a compliant metaverse script should not be designed with inductive behavior rules and integral rules that damage family ethics. While encouraging individuals to have extensive contact with the real society in the metaverse, they should also set an ethical bottom line to prevent chain disputes in the real physical world. In short, the Metaverse script should avoid the separation of individual life from reality to reality, but should promote the blending of reality and reality to serve a better life.</p><p id="58a9"><b>Adhere to the principle of sociality. </b>The so-called “sociality” means that the country should develop the metaverse business from the perspective of the whole society’s overall optimization (Global Wisdom) to ensure its stability and long-term success. The first is to strengthen the social welfare attributes of the Metaverse. As mentioned earlier, the metaverse can easily make individuals atomized, detached from the real society, etc., which is not conducive to social solidarity and social integration. Therefore, compliant game rules should be designed in the whole process to guide individuals to contribute to the social public interest, rather than fall into egoism and hedonism, that is, to strengthen the social responsibility of individual players. The second is to achieve better real social governance based on the metaverse. From the perspective of artificial intelligence, all players are agents, and their dynamic behavior data is recorded in the whole process, and then the large background system can perform intelligent algorithm analysis on historical data, calculate the optimal behavior strategy, and achieve global optimization (Social Optimal), ultimately improving the real society. The third is to optimize the oriented design of the reward and punishment mechanism of the metaverse society, reward and encourage pro-social behaviors, and punish and limit anti-social and social-shunning behaviors.</p><p id="e260"><b>Adhere to the principle of people’s nature. </b>“People’s nature” refers to the subjectivity of the people, and requires that the development of Metaverse must be people-oriented, serve the people, and meet the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs. The first is to show that the people are the creators of history. In the design of relevant historical scripts, the main role of the people in promoting history should be emphasized, the contingent image roles such as elitism and heroism should be downplayed, and the inevitable and persistent historical role of the people should be highlighted. The second is to realize the self-management of the people. Within the allowable scope of political, content and other rules, give full play to the role of the general public (players) in self-organization and self-management to prevent alienation, oppression, and routine. The third is to avoid “elite capture” of the metaverse. In the metaverse society, in terms of virtual currency (points), the olive-shaped social structure should be roughly maintained to avoid the Matthew effect of social polarization. In particular, it is necessary to prevent the metaverse from being controlled by a few people (capitalists), and to prevent a situation in which the masses work for a few people and groups in the metaverse.</p><p id="18cd"><b>Adhere to the principle of labor. </b>Whether it is a real physical society or a metaverse society, it should be a place for labor and practice, and the concept of labor glory should be advocated to prevent the idea of ​​getting something for nothing. The Metaverse helps to promote the freedom of individual labor and expand the time, space, and field of labor. When promoting the development of the Metaverse, the rules for game players should be designed based on the principle of labor first. The first is to tie labor to metaverse wealth. The virtual currency points obtained by the individual should be roughly linked to the effective labor payment, which can be confirmed and authorized through the blockchain. The second is to encourage meaningful labor. Encourage individual players to create knowledge, content, culture, art, etc., to prevent meaningless “mining” and model “idling”. The third is to connect the virtual and the real, and the real physical society and the metaverse social fields map to each other, which cannot be neglected. Through the integration of virtual and real technology, individuals should be effectively guided to learn experiential knowledge in the metaverse, and then the enthusiasm for labor should be swayed in the real physical society, so as to realize the benign interaction between the two societies and increase the real social welfare.</p><h2 id="f66b">Summary: Solving Problems in Development</h2><p id="7720">Whether it is from the trend of technological development or from the perspective of the explosive growth of human knowledge, the metaverse is a necessary stage for the development of human society. The metaverse is not the fall of human beings, nor the involution of civilization, but the liberation of human nature, the development of human rights, the progress of culture, and the transition of civilization. The Metaverse has given my country a major historical development opportunity. We should seize this historical opportunity, give full play to the social foundation and advantages that support the development of the Metaverse, strive to build a strong Metaverse country, and practice the four self-confidences in the field of virtual society. It should be pointed out that the problems that the metaverse discussed in this article brings to individuals and society is only a probability-based trend prediction and risk assessment, not a statement of inevitability. Any new thing has problems in the development process, and the metaverse is no exception. Problems in the development of the Metaverse can be solved through the social governance of the Metaverse. In order to ensure the stable and long-term development of my country’s Metaverse business, it is necessary to adhere to the governance principles of politics, content, society, people, and labor, continuously improve the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security, and enhance the people’s “four self-confidence.” “.</p></article></body>

Potential Risks and Governance Principles of the Metaverse

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The mobile Internet has opened up an independent spiritual life world outside the real physical world. The emergence of new technologies represented by the metaverse means that the attraction of the virtual spiritual life world may surpass the real physical world for the first time, and the attributes of people and society may face another major reconstruction. Professor Lv Peng from the School of Public Administration of Central South University wrote an article in “National Governance” Weekly, pointing out that the Metaverse can play a huge role in stimulating individuals and social vitality, but it will also bring far-reaching structural impacts to society, involving social security. , political security, economic security and other major issues, if they are allowed to develop freely, there may be risks of loss of control and alienation. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to advance research on metaverse governance.

With the development of social productive forces, great changes have taken place in the form of human life. Since modern times, science and technology have gradually become the primary productive forces, and the changes in human attributes and social forms have become more drastic. With the rapid development of the Internet, human beings have accelerated into the network society and digital society. A major change is that the mobile Internet has opened up an independent spiritual life world outside the real physical world. The emergence of new technologies represented by the metaverse in 2021 means the arrival of the “singularity”, the attraction of the virtual spiritual life world may surpass the real physical world for the first time, and the attributes of people and society may face another major reconstruction. It is foreseeable that the metaverse will have a profound impact on individuals and society. Our country should study and judge in advance, fully rehearse, and reserve countermeasures to ensure the healthy development of the metaverse.

The Metaverse will intensify the trend towards individuation

Based on the continuous improvement of social productivity and material living standards, people’s spiritual and cultural needs have become more and more important. The core feature of the metaverse is to create an independent spiritual life field outside of the individual’s material life, and the individual’s physiology, psychology, personality, interaction, etc. will undergo major changes. in particular:

The Metaverse creates “first-person” parallel worlds. The creation of parallel worlds is the most significant change brought about by the Metaverse, and the logical starting point for our discussion of its impact. In the PC Internet era, human beings create a virtual society through technology. In the era of mobile Internet, people have created a mobile virtual society. Although the degree of social virtualization continues to deepen, and the convenience and mobility continue to improve, it still cannot solve the problem of individuals fully integrating into the virtual society. In the pre-metaverse era, the virtual society was indirect and objective, and was a primary development form. We need terminals such as PC screens, tablet computers, and smart phones to access the virtual society and conduct social activities. In the metaverse era, the virtual space has been upgraded to an advanced form, with directness and subjectivity, that is, a “first-person” parallel world. Individuals can directly enter the virtual space, and the content and form of the virtual space are extremely rich, beautiful and full of creativity. As a result, the individual enters a parallel world that is relatively independent from the real physical world, that is, living in two worlds. Physiological, material and survival needs are solved in the real physical world, and spiritual and cultural life is mainly carried out in a parallel world.

Metaverse deepens the risk of individual atomization. In the pre-metaverse era, there was the problem of individual atomization. The so-called “individual atomization” refers to the degradation of individual social interactions, social support systems and functions. Individuals can maintain a basic and normal work and lifestyle to a large extent by relying only on themselves and without people in need. In the era of mobile Internet, this trend has become more obvious, and it is prominently reflected in the aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation. Smartphone applications can cover most of the needs. For example, through take-out apps, online car-hailing apps, online shopping apps, etc., people can meet their basic needs without leaving their homes. It is common for news reports that some people rely on take-out food to stay at home for several months. This is a microcosm. The problem of individual atomization in the mobile Internet era has become very serious. Only by solving basic and survival needs, the mobile Internet has caused major atomization risks in individual life, and to a large extent fragmentation and obstruction The ability, desire and inclination of individual social activities are stagnant. In the metaverse era, this trend will continue, and the level of risk will be further deepened. On the basis of satisfying the needs of material life, the metaverse may completely lead individuals to a virtualized parallel world, raising the risk of individual atomization to the highest level.

The metaverse breeds reality alienation. People often say “ideal is full, reality is very skinny”. When an individual lives in the real physical world, there will always be unsatisfactory, unfree, and unsatisfactory. Because of the real physical world, resources are always scarce, opportunities are always limited, and life is always irreversible. But in the metaverse society, people can ignore the “skinny” experience of reality (real physical society), directly embrace the “full” spiritual world, and indulge in a beautiful parallel world full of joy, pleasure, satisfaction, and happiness . It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. It is an inevitable trend that individuals like the metaverse more and more and spend more and more time in parallel worlds. This will lead to individuals becoming more and more alienated from the real world (the real physical world), which will be manifested in both the subjective psychological level and the objective time distribution, which will have two negative effects: the first is the further reduction of the individual’s prosocial tendency , because the main source of happiness has been transferred to the metaverse, the “society” here refers specifically to the real society, that is, the real physical world; the second is the rise of the individual’s happiness threshold. As the individual is immersed in the metaverse, the number of times they obtain happiness The number of stimuli, frequency, and occasions has increased, people need more and more stimulation dose to feel happiness, and it is more and more difficult for people to feel happiness and happiness.

The Metaverse causes individual disputes and family ethical issues. In the parallel world created by the Metaverse, many players are active and interacting in it. The main players are real people, and the interpersonal relationships, interpersonal disputes, and family ethics issues in the traditional society will also be projected into the metaverse society. The manifestations may vary slightly, but the nature of the problem remains the same. The first is interpersonal disputes. For example, in the metaverse, players will have group teams, joint tasks and other interactions, which will inevitably lead to interpersonal disputes, including but not limited to abuse, slander, personal attacks, and team leadership disputes. The second is the issue of marriage, friendship and family ethics. The metaverse society can be regarded as a special form of the real society. The communication between members of the society also has the attributes of emotional communication and value communication, which will inevitably bring about problems of marriage, love and friendship. And because the metaverse hides the individual attributes of individuals in the real society, the mechanisms of personal pressure and social pressure in the real society no longer play a role, and related marriage, love and friendship behaviors are more common, purer, more subjective, and more frequent. For example, two players fall in love in a virtual metaverse world and become husband and wife. How is this defined in a legal and social sense? Issues such as marriage, dating, and family in the metaverse will become major ethical issues in the new era.

The Metaverse Will Bring Structural Risks

Individuals and families are the basic units of society. In the metaverse era, there will be major changes in individuals and families, and further, there will be major changes and adjustments in the social structure. It is true that the Metaverse can play a huge role in stimulating individuals and social vitality, but it will also bring far-reaching structural shocks and operational risks to society, involving major issues such as social security, political security, and economic security.

The metaverse could lead to historical nihilism. In the metaverse era, individuals will spend a lot of time in the virtual spiritual world. When their sense of well-being and experience are greatly increased, individuals will have symptoms of “overstimulation”. Instead of focusing on the past, which adds to anxiety and disappointment, they only enjoy the present moment that brings the most immediate, greatest, and highest concentration of pleasure. If everyone is like this, over time, the entire nation will be in crisis. One is that people no longer pay attention to what happened in the past because it burdens memory, occupies brain memory, and is not directly related to current enjoyment. National humiliation days, national holidays, etc., have become relatively unimportant in the metaverse era. Second, people no longer think deeply, because thinking can also bring anxiety and increase the burden on the mind. “Looking up at the starry sky” is no longer important, and the Metaverse can create a beautiful starry sky at will. When individuals enjoy the present and game life in the metaverse society, the future of the nation is worrying, and the competitiveness of the country will also be severely damaged. It is worth noting that this problem and tendency may be more obvious in the people born in the metaverse era (“Metazoic”), at that time, the spiritual and cultural temperament of the country and the nation may be negatively reshaped.

The metaverse may deconstruct national histories and cultural self-confidence. The sense of pride and happiness of the Chinese people, to a large extent, comes from the long history and cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, as well as the great struggle against imperialism and the construction of a new China since modern times. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “The whole party must more consciously increase self-confidence in the road, theory, system, and culture, and neither take the old road of closure and rigidity, nor take the evil road of changing the flag, maintain political determination, and insist on hard work. To prosper, and always uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics.” In the metaverse space, individuals tend to attribute happiness and pride to the labor and interaction in the virtual space, which are linked to the virtual currency points obtained by virtual labor and the growth of the metaverse level. This kind of rule design will lead to the materialization, vulgarization and parochialization of national emotions and national spirits, and will dissolve the pride and happiness of being a son and daughter of China. The lack of Chinese history and Chinese culture will delay the formation and strengthening of the “four self-confidences”, and cause bad social inertia and demonstration effect. If this situation is left unchecked, after several generations, the concept of the Chinese nation, national history, national culture, etc. will gradually fade away, and the sense of community of the Chinese nation will gradually weaken. To this end, necessary measures must be taken to guard against such false social cognitive tendencies and to ensure that the development of the Metaverse follows the correct value principles.

The metaverse may deconstruct state political authority. The real physical society is the fundamental support of the metaverse virtual society. The quality of its development determines the prosperity of the metaverse society. In a real physical society, the political system is the core force driving the development of a country and plays a fundamental role. The Communist Party of China is the leading core of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the institutional guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. In the metaverse virtual society, a large number of social members will be guided to carry out activities that focus on enjoying the moment and having fun in a timely manner. If this pan-entertainment tendency is not politically guided, the consequences will be quite serious. Over time, it will cause major delusions and logical confusion of individuals, believing that the construction of the real physical society, the national political system, and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are no longer important. After one or two generations, the social temperament will be greatly changed, and egoism will prevail. When everyone only cares about whether they are happy and how to be happier, and no one pays attention to the fundamental real social construction, not only will a social picture of bad money drive out good money will be formed, and the ideal social foundation of socialism and communism will be formed. If it is weakened, the core leadership of the Communist Party of China will be weakened, and the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will be delayed.

The Metaverse may lead to capital speculation and financial risks. The logic of capital is a direct cause of the current Metaverse’s ferocity. Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, people around the world have been required to reduce unnecessary travel and social life, and the real industry has been severely impacted, but the virtual Internet economy has become hot in the context of epidemic prevention and control. After the era of mobile Internet and social media, Metaverse has become the next outlet for the development of the Internet economy, attracting capital from all walks of life. The current development of the Metaverse in China is still at the stage of concept presupposition, ideological preparation, and prototyping. On December 27, 2021, Baidu released its metaverse product “Xi Rong”. The author believes that the development of the metaverse requires a solid economic foundation, social governance foundation, and social acceptance foundation. In these respects, China has done better and more effective than the West. In other words, the Metaverse has better conditions and foundations for social development in China. However, it should be noted that, driven by capital, the Metaverse may become a place with a high incidence of tax evasion, money laundering, and fraud, and necessary virtual financial supervision is indispensable.

The metaverse is not the end of humanity’s transformation of society. The Metaverse is an enhanced, superimposed, and upgraded version of human society. With the development of the metaverse, the “real + virtual” form of integration will become the new normal of individual social life. On the one hand, the metaverse uses interactive technology to open up the connection between the real world and the virtual world, allowing individuals to perform activities in a larger space. On the other hand, as real world resources (population, material, industry) are continuously invested in the virtual world, people’s spiritual life will become more and more colorful. In fact, since the appearance of smartphones, this trend has already begun to emerge, which is highlighted by the fact that mobile devices will become more and more exciting, highly realistic, virtual and real, and colorful content will be presented to people, which is enough to entertain people. Spend a lot of time every day looking down at your phone. But from the perspective of technological evolution logic, the metaverse only superimposes virtual space on the basis of real society, and does not involve the transformation of physical attributes. That is to say, the metaverse is not the end of technology. There are concepts like “custom universe” or “artificial universe”, which involve modification, transformation, and creation of social and physical attributes. A general trend is that human beings will have more and more voice and control in the transformation of the material and spiritual worlds, which will continue to define individuals, reshape society, and guide human beings. At this stage, Metaverse should be committed to providing high-quality content products to further enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the people.

Actively promote my country’s Metaverse Governance

The author believes that the metaverse may have a huge impact on the individual and social levels. If it is allowed to develop freely, it may breed the risk of loss of control and alienation. Therefore, it is extremely necessary to pre-research metaverse governance.

Adhere to political principles. The socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental institutional guarantee for my country’s achievements in socialist development. As an extension of the real society, the development of the Metaverse in China must also adhere to the direction of socialism and adhere to the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. To do this, two aspects need to be done: the first is the entry of state power into the Metaverse. In the metaverse world, party committees, governments, courts, and banks must be set up to manage individual labor practices in the virtual space. The party committee is responsible for the political security of the Metaverse, the government is responsible for the management of players’ self-organization, and the court is responsible for adjudicating and mediating interpersonal disputes. Effectively manage the metaverse space through political construction. The second is that the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community enters the metaverse. Through the script setting, materials such as Chinese culture, national elements, historical stories, myths and legends, the history of modern national struggles, and the history of the party for a century are incorporated into the metaverse design. Through immersive and participatory experience, players deepen their understanding of the profound, holographic, panoramic, and whole-process understanding of the national history of the grand country, and continuously enhance the “four self-confidences”.

Stick to the principle of content. The script is the core content definition of the Metaverse. The country should set up a special department to strengthen the management of the metaverse script, the most important of which is the content review. First, a compliant metaverse script should set up game functions that prevent individuals from self-isolation, and encourage individuals to interact with other players. Second, a compliant metaverse script should encourage individuals to extensively connect the metaverse with the real society, design player mechanisms, encourage individual activities in the metaverse space, and increase the social and public interests of the real physical society. Third, a compliant metaverse script should have its own dispute mediation measures, based on dynamic and individualized data learning, to predict possible interpersonal disputes and social risk points in advance. Fourth, a compliant metaverse script should not be designed with inductive behavior rules and integral rules that damage family ethics. While encouraging individuals to have extensive contact with the real society in the metaverse, they should also set an ethical bottom line to prevent chain disputes in the real physical world. In short, the Metaverse script should avoid the separation of individual life from reality to reality, but should promote the blending of reality and reality to serve a better life.

Adhere to the principle of sociality. The so-called “sociality” means that the country should develop the metaverse business from the perspective of the whole society’s overall optimization (Global Wisdom) to ensure its stability and long-term success. The first is to strengthen the social welfare attributes of the Metaverse. As mentioned earlier, the metaverse can easily make individuals atomized, detached from the real society, etc., which is not conducive to social solidarity and social integration. Therefore, compliant game rules should be designed in the whole process to guide individuals to contribute to the social public interest, rather than fall into egoism and hedonism, that is, to strengthen the social responsibility of individual players. The second is to achieve better real social governance based on the metaverse. From the perspective of artificial intelligence, all players are agents, and their dynamic behavior data is recorded in the whole process, and then the large background system can perform intelligent algorithm analysis on historical data, calculate the optimal behavior strategy, and achieve global optimization (Social Optimal), ultimately improving the real society. The third is to optimize the oriented design of the reward and punishment mechanism of the metaverse society, reward and encourage pro-social behaviors, and punish and limit anti-social and social-shunning behaviors.

Adhere to the principle of people’s nature. “People’s nature” refers to the subjectivity of the people, and requires that the development of Metaverse must be people-oriented, serve the people, and meet the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs. The first is to show that the people are the creators of history. In the design of relevant historical scripts, the main role of the people in promoting history should be emphasized, the contingent image roles such as elitism and heroism should be downplayed, and the inevitable and persistent historical role of the people should be highlighted. The second is to realize the self-management of the people. Within the allowable scope of political, content and other rules, give full play to the role of the general public (players) in self-organization and self-management to prevent alienation, oppression, and routine. The third is to avoid “elite capture” of the metaverse. In the metaverse society, in terms of virtual currency (points), the olive-shaped social structure should be roughly maintained to avoid the Matthew effect of social polarization. In particular, it is necessary to prevent the metaverse from being controlled by a few people (capitalists), and to prevent a situation in which the masses work for a few people and groups in the metaverse.

Adhere to the principle of labor. Whether it is a real physical society or a metaverse society, it should be a place for labor and practice, and the concept of labor glory should be advocated to prevent the idea of ​​getting something for nothing. The Metaverse helps to promote the freedom of individual labor and expand the time, space, and field of labor. When promoting the development of the Metaverse, the rules for game players should be designed based on the principle of labor first. The first is to tie labor to metaverse wealth. The virtual currency points obtained by the individual should be roughly linked to the effective labor payment, which can be confirmed and authorized through the blockchain. The second is to encourage meaningful labor. Encourage individual players to create knowledge, content, culture, art, etc., to prevent meaningless “mining” and model “idling”. The third is to connect the virtual and the real, and the real physical society and the metaverse social fields map to each other, which cannot be neglected. Through the integration of virtual and real technology, individuals should be effectively guided to learn experiential knowledge in the metaverse, and then the enthusiasm for labor should be swayed in the real physical society, so as to realize the benign interaction between the two societies and increase the real social welfare.

Summary: Solving Problems in Development

Whether it is from the trend of technological development or from the perspective of the explosive growth of human knowledge, the metaverse is a necessary stage for the development of human society. The metaverse is not the fall of human beings, nor the involution of civilization, but the liberation of human nature, the development of human rights, the progress of culture, and the transition of civilization. The Metaverse has given my country a major historical development opportunity. We should seize this historical opportunity, give full play to the social foundation and advantages that support the development of the Metaverse, strive to build a strong Metaverse country, and practice the four self-confidences in the field of virtual society. It should be pointed out that the problems that the metaverse discussed in this article brings to individuals and society is only a probability-based trend prediction and risk assessment, not a statement of inevitability. Any new thing has problems in the development process, and the metaverse is no exception. Problems in the development of the Metaverse can be solved through the social governance of the Metaverse. In order to ensure the stable and long-term development of my country’s Metaverse business, it is necessary to adhere to the governance principles of politics, content, society, people, and labor, continuously improve the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security, and enhance the people’s “four self-confidence.” “.

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