An evocative excerpt from Jacob von Uexküll's work that could be helpful to grasp the kind of digital creatures I'm interested in:

“Perhaps it should be called a stroll into unfamiliar worlds; worlds strange to us but known to other creatures, manifold and varied as the animals themselves. The best time to set out on such an adventure is on a summer day. The place, a flower-strewn meadow, humming with insects, fluttering with butterflies. Here we may glimpse the worlds of the lowly dwellers of the meadow. To do so, we must first blow, in fancy, a soap bubble around each creature to represent its own world, filled with the perceptions which it alone knows. When we ourselves then step into one of these bubbles, the familiar meadow is transformed. Many of its colorful features disappear, others no longer belong together but appear in new relationships. A new world comes into being. Through the bubble we see the world of the burrowing worm, of the butterfly, or of the field mouse; the world as it appears to the animals themselves, not as it appears to us. This is what we call the phenomenal world or the self-world of the animal.”

Uexküll (von), Jakob et Claire H Schiller. 1957. « A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men », dans Instinctive Behaviour. The development of a modern concept. New York : International Universities Press, p. 5-80.