摘要
所谓“第四世界”,是指20世纪70年代后,人类借助电脑网络、电子通信、虚拟技术和丰富的想象力将光、电、色、能、数字与信息集于一体,对宇宙万物和人类的政治经济、日常生活模拟缩合,构建起的一个新天地。它是对赛博空间、虚拟现实、网络世界和信息社会等新实体的综合。它有构成的物质基础信息和网络,有其存在的形式赛博空间和赛博时间,有存在的认识论和本体论根据;它具有鲜明的文化性质和重要的社会价值。它与波普尔的“世界3”有质的区别,突出展示了其主体性、超现实性、虚拟性和想象性。
Fourth World is a new world that is constructed by mankind with computer network, telecommunication, virtual technology, and the great power of imagination. It mixes light, electricity, color, energy, figure and information together, simulates and condenses the universal things and human social politics, economics, science, culture, and daily life. It is a new synthesis of cyberspace, virtual reality, network world, and information society. Its material base is information and computer＇s network. Its form of existence is the cyberspace and cyber-time. It has the Philosophical epistemology and ontology that make it existence. It possesses the bright cultural property and the important value. There is the essential difference between world 4 and world 3. It sets outstandingly out the subjectivity,surreality, virtuality and imaginality.
出处
《学术月刊》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第2期5-12,共8页
Academic Monthly
关键词
世界4
世界3
虚拟实体
赛博空间
电子人
World 4, World 3, virtual reality, cyberspace, electroic man
