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JUST NUMBERS. NOTES ABOUT THE NATURE OF A DIGITAL WORLD
Marek Chlebuś1
DIGITAL WORLD IN THE MAKING
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1–2 (88–89) 2016, Publication date: 13 May 2016
Keywords: The philosophy of the virtual world, ontology, epistemology, information, authorship and copyright law, values, property, personality, religion, intelligence, digital and supernatural beings
Abstract Only digits really exist in the digital world as only matter exists in a material world. In the first one, all physical things are pure abstraction, similarly as all numbers in the second one. Digits are the only substance of the digital worlds. This hi-tech Pythagoreanism leads to very serious consequences, not only for philosophy, but also for practice. Various concepts and rules, evident here, in the digital world may not work at all, or work improperly, and guide us to absurdities when used mindlessly.
E-mail: chlebus@eco.pl