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Being , space & time in the Web

Being , space & time in the Web. Michalis Vafopoulos , vafopoulos.org PhiloWeb 2014. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The Web is everywhere. …challenging the basic aspects of human nature.

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Being , space & time in the Web

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  1. Being, space&timein the Web MichalisVafopoulos, vafopoulos.org PhiloWeb2014 Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

  2. The Web is everywhere

  3. …challenging the basic aspects of human nature • Technology • Body • Moral Values • Sociality • Generations • Economy

  4. Humanizing the Web Webizing Humanity what changes need to be incorporated in the Web to best serve humanity? Successful science & business facilitate this dialogue Philosophy?

  5. Outline • Hypotheses • Being, space & time in the Web • Potential applications

  6. Hypotheses Web: • ethically-relevant social machine • magma of Users and code start from the Web assume a self-containedWeb or the “manna from heaven” hypothesis

  7. “manna from heaven” hypothesis • Web is the only existing system • human beings are communicating & working solely through it • acompassionate ‘God’ provides the necessary quantity of ‘manna’, fulfilling all human needs, with no cost & effort

  8. Being, space & time in the Web • A beingexists if and only if there is a communication channel linking to it • Web beings are beings communicated through the Web

  9. URI • minimal description of invariant elements in communication through the Web • borderline, interlocutor & fingerprint of Web being • enables transformation from digital to Web

  10. URI • directly connected to existence (birth, access, navigate, edit & death of a Web being) • other characteristics of Web beings may change in time • achange in URI means the death of existing & birth of a new Web being

  11. The Web space • a division of position & place created by the links among Web beings • each Web being occupies a specific locus in the Web network • a 3d “geographic coordinate system”

  12. The Web space • heterogeneous • many “gravity” & relative “distance” metrics (e.g. centralities) • Pagerank initially build on Web space

  13. The Web time • a series of choices (visits) in the Web space (Bergsonian durations) • visiting selections attach semantic meaning

  14. The Web time • casual relationships among Web beings • counting: Log file as a generic common property & co-operation in the Web

  15. The Web time time of social systems is • indeterministic • Heterogeneous • irreversible • built on the Einsteinian time of physical systems

  16. The Web time Durations are becoming: • Discoverable • Observable • Traceable • Processable • Massive

  17. The Web time • increases material dimension of networks • enables reconstruction of consciousness & memory of Users

  18. Being, space & time in the Web • A beingexists if and only if there is a communication channel linking to it • Web beings communicated through the Web • Web space: the Web being’s URI, incoming & outgoing links • Web time: visiting durations

  19. Potential applications • How it affects the physical • Values: moral, cultural, econ. • Link economy • App economy • excessive market power in Search Engine market • …

  20. Role of philosophy • What society can learn from the Web? • What can teach it in order to become more useful?

  21. Thank you! • More in vafopoulos.org References • Being, space and time in the Web. Metaphilosophy. • The Web economy: goods, users, models and policies. Foundations and Trends in Web science.

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