Abstract

We live today surrounded by countless digital gadgets and navigate through cyberspace as if it were the most natural thing in the world. This study lays out what digital beings are and what cyberspace is, thus disclosing the basic ontological structure of the digital world. The digital cast of being comes from a long history of philosophical and mathematical thinking in which the Western will to productive power over movement has attained its consummation. A focus is put on Aristotle’s ontology of number, space and time in the Physics and Metaphysics, as well as on Descartes’ blue-print, in his Regulae, for the mathematical cast of being in the modern age