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A **Denizen** is a digitalised person. The term is used to differentiate them from [[terminology:Puppet|Puppets]] and [[terminology:Citizen|Citizens]], and, together with latter, forms the definition of [[terminology:Netizen]]. ===== Digital mind ===== A Denizen's mind is //not// an understood construct, any more than a human being's mind is a fully understood construct - it is simply faithfully translated from a biological medium to a digital medium. As such, it takes skill and caution to tamper with it, though disconnected Denizen-brain is infinitely easier to reattach than disconnected pieces of brain from a biological human would be, and back-ups make the whole thing less terrifying than surgery on neural pathways would be. The only person capable of altering a Denizen's mind are they themselves - or anyone that they give their private key to. ===== Settings ===== There are a few irrevocable abilities that each Denizen has access to by design - things a server can by design not override: * [[technology:evanescing|exiting from a Fragment, server or network, or negotiating Following]] * altering one's default [[technology:avatar]] * setting one's [[technology:metadata]] preference * either blocking or receiving private messages one is the recipient of * either blocking or receiving global messages one is the recipient of * sending private messages (as long as the recipient has not blocked them) * defining one's sensory input limits * disconnecting from one's sensory inputs (either individually or in full) * respawning on avatar death [[:Entrapment]] is in part as scary as it is since it not only affects [[technology:web access control]] but also the supposedly irrevocable Denizen-bound privileges. {{tag>[work-in-progress]}}