Digital reality and ontological status of digital technologies
https://doi.org/10.29235/2524-2369-2021-66-1-7-15
Abstract
In the article, based on the analysis of the definition of the category of reality, as well as the main trends in the development of nonclassical philosophy, the legitimacy of introducing the concept of digital reality into the scientific and philosophical language is substantiated. The basis for asserting the existence of digital reality in the structure of the universe is a specific set of properties of digital technologies (digital objects), which distinguishes them from other objects of the universe and determines their special existence. In the article, based on the highlighted properties of digital technologies, they are defined as functional objects that perform operations with information presented in discrete form (measured in bits) by executing programs (algorithm) on a physical medium.
About the Author
A. Yu. Kosenkov
Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences
of Belarus
Belarus
Belarus
Alexander Yu. Kosenkov – Postgraduate Student
1 Surganov Str., Bldg 2, Minsk 220072
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