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1 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.

2 The Web is everywhere

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

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

5 Outline ① Hypotheses ② Being, space & time in the Web ③ Potential applications 5

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

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

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

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

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

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” 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 Being, space & time in the Web A being exists 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 18

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

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

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. 21


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