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Beyond the Digital

Beyond the Digital. Rafael Capurro VIPER 99 Symposium Cut & Copy. Contents. Changing views Perception as world construction The real is the digital Beyond the digital. Changing views. matter. gods. spirit. what is real?. water. creatures. idea. actuality.

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Beyond the Digital

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  1. Beyond the Digital Rafael Capurro VIPER 99 Symposium Cut & Copy

  2. Contents • Changing views • Perception as world construction • The real is the digital • Beyond the digital

  3. Changing views matter gods spirit what is real? water creatures idea actuality

  4. Perception as world construction The real is a thing (‘res’) constructed by perception and thinking out of the given (‘data’) (Kant) Unthinking things have no existence out of the mind of thinking things. “Their esse is percipi” (Berkeley)

  5. The real is the digital Thinking is information processing. Things are programs What is, is what is digital. Esse est computari What is, is what is digitally constructed. Esse est informari

  6. Beyond the digital Spectrality

  7. Beyond the digital Being in cyberspace: not just computation • eliminating time and space • eliminating body and matter • doing things with words

  8. Beyond the digital Being digital: a ghostly feeling • Our being in time is present-oriented • Our being in space is global-oriented • Our being with others is ghost-oriented • Our being on earth is construction-oriented

  9. Is the world after all just a dream? Reality is vanishing There is a lot of media-smog in the air Ghostly technology is dreaming us There is a lot of suffering, hunger and hate

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