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Being, space & time in the
WebMichalis Vafopoulos,
vafopoulos.org PhiloWeb 2014
Creative Commons LicenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The Web is everywhere
…challenging the basic aspects of human nature
o Technologyo Bodyo Moral Valueso Socialityo Generations o Economy
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?
Outline
① Hypotheses ② Being, space & time in the Web③ Potential applications
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Hypotheses
Web:• ethically-relevant social machine• magma of Users and code
start from the Web assume a self-contained Web orthe “manna from heaven” hypothesis
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“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
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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
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URI minimal description of invariant
elements in communication through the Web
borderline, interlocutor & fingerprint of Web being
enables transformation from digital to Web
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URIdirectly 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
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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
The Web space• heterogeneous• many “gravity” & relative
“distance” metrics (e.g. centralities)
• Pagerank initially build on Web space
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The Web time
• a series of choices (visits) in the Web space (Bergsonian durations)
• visiting selections attach semantic meaning
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The Web time• casual relationships among
Web beings• counting: Log file as a generic
common property & co-operation in the Web
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The Web time
time of social systems is
• indeterministic• Heterogeneous • irreversible • built on the Einsteinian time
of physical systems
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The Web time
Durations are becoming:
• Discoverable • Observable • Traceable • Processable • Massive
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The Web time
increases material dimension of networks
enables reconstruction of consciousness & memory of Users
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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
Potential applications
oHow it affects the physical oValues: moral, cultural, econ. oLink economy oApp economy oexcessive market power in
Search Engine marketo … 19
Role of philosophy
What society can learn from the Web?
What can teach it in order to become more useful?
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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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