Evolution - Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with Java - page 224

RealPerson
Modeling people is probably the most complex RO of all. The experience
is, however, most interesting, when guiding a residual self-image as in the
movie The Matrix through a virtual world. In the times of social networks,
a RealPerson generator for a dedicated site (i.e., format) becomes obvious.
The basic idea is that people don't want to enter personal information over
and over again. They have their personal account to store this information
and retrieve it as needed.
A generator could retrieve standard information like name, birth date,
and home address from a personal profile to instantiate the initial person.
Once instantiated the operator (real person) could be asked to provide
other relevant information like email, phone number, etc. The personal
identity (digitized with a certificate) should be secured, since no one would
like to publish passwords, credit-card data, or a personal medical history.
If we like it or not, people become more and more traceable by digi-
tal footprints and a motion profile provided by cell phone and GPS. The
biologic identity is supplied by the genetic fingerprint although it is still
too time consuming to analyze DNA on the fly. Who knows when a new
technology emerges to identify personal sediments instantly to reconstruct
a person's path through every day life and look him up in a database.

The physical body. Religions claim that all people are equal before God.
In constitutional states, all people are equal before the law. For a scientist,
people are only equal in one single aspect: every person has the same
normal body temperature no matter, if he is in Alaska or on the equator.
On the other hand, the human body is very well known to physicians.
i.e., the step length can be derived from the body dimensions. Therefore,
the RealPerson template can be programmed in a general way, before the
actual values are supplied.
A good first approach to a validation of a human body is to look up
sports statistics. World records mark the explicit maximum performance
and should at least raise a warning, when being broken. Science can also
provide tables for fuel consumption. How much energy (calories) is burned
with different activities? And activities can be combined. For example,
it is most unlikely (impossible?) to set a marathon world record within a
triathlon competition. Similar to the fuel capacity of a car, a person has
to fill up his tank and a ROApp server could observe a person and require
him to navigate to a place to drink and eat and to sleep.

The brain. The brain can be another software component of a RealPerson .
This part of the body can be easily defined, physically. The mental pro-
cesses are almost impossible to access. Nevertheless, any person can be
observed in a social context to reveal his attitudes.

This external view