Corpus
00 — Bibliographical information
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- §00.00.00.00 — Bibliographical information
- §00.00.01.00 — Book title
- §00.00.02.00 — Author
- §00.00.03.00 — Publisher
- §00.00.04.00 — Year
- §00.00.05.00 — ISBN
00.01 — Foreword
- §00.01.00.00 — Foreword
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- §00.01.03.00
00.02 — Prologue
- §00.02.00.00 — Prologue
- §00.02.01.00 — Information and its processing at the epicentre
- §00.02.02.00 — The two basic premises of this political philosophy
- §00.02.03.00 — Why a political philosophy of information?
- §00.02.04.00 — The decline of the Westphalian state
- §00.02.05.00 — Why now? The digital world
- §00.02.05.01
- §00.02.05.02
- §00.02.05.03
- §00.02.06.00 — The three (informational) milestone moments in humanity’s development
- §00.02.06.01
- §00.02.06.02
- §00.02.06.03
- §00.02.06.04 — The creation of the digital world by humans changed everything
- §00.02.07.00 — The owl of Minerva
- §00.02.08.00 — A God-like, Genesis moment for humans
- §00.02.09.00 — A machine-readable philosophy
- §00.02.10.00 — Not a moral philosophy
- §00.02.11.00 — What this philosophy is
- §00.02.12.00 — A philosophy of the many, not of the one - the (philosophical) truth
01 — Information
01.00 — §01.00.00
- §01.00.00.00 — Information
- §01.00.01.00 — Everything is information
- §01.00.01.01
- §01.00.01.02
- §01.00.01.03
- §01.00.02.00 — Every Being and every Thing a dataset
- §01.00.02.01
- §01.00.02.02
- §01.00.03.00 — Each dataset to be considered a closed system
- §01.00.04.00 — The analogue and the digital worlds
- §01.00.05.00 — Information can be processed
- §01.00.05.01
- §01.00.06.00 — Processing on datasets
- §01.00.06.01
- §01.00.07.00 — New information
- §01.00.08.00 — Relationships among datasets
- §01.00.08.01 — Personal information
- §01.00.09.00 — Life, birth, death
- §01.00.09.01
- §01.00.09.02
- §01.00.10.00 — The analogue world; Nature
- §01.00.10.01
- §01.00.11.00 — The digital world – A simulacrum gone rogue
- §01.00.11.01
- §01.00.11.02
- §01.00.12.00 — Sometimes blended, but never the same
- §01.00.13.00 — The individual is torn in the digital world
- §01.00.13.01
- §01.00.13.02
- §01.00.13.03
- §01.00.13.04 — This is also the case for other Beings and Things, too
- §01.00.14.00 — Access to and use of information
- §01.00.15.00 — All that is solid melts into air
- §01.00.15.01
- §01.00.16.00 — Information in the analogue world is finite, but infinite in the digital world
- §01.00.16.01
- §01.00.16.02
- §01.00.16.03
- §01.00.17.00 — Total control is impossible in the analogue world, but possible in the digital one
- §01.00.17.01
- §01.00.17.02
- §01.00.17.03
- §01.00.18.00 — The Unique Human Observer Perspective
- §01.00.19.00 — A definition of information(?)
01.01 — Material and immaterial information
- §01.01.00.00 — Material and immaterial information
- §01.01.01.00 — Information is either material or immaterial
- §01.01.02.00 — Finite and infinite information
- §01.01.03.00 — Creation of information
- §01.01.03.01
- §01.01.03.02
- §01.01.04.00 — Human can and will process information
- §01.01.05.00 — Materialisation
- §01.01.05.01
- §01.01.05.02
- §01.01.06.00 — Dematerialisation
- §01.01.06.01
- §01.01.06.02
- §01.01.06.03
- §01.01.07.00 — The materialisation of (immaterial) information
- §01.01.08.00 — The dematerialisation of materialised (immaterial) information
- §01.01.09.00 — The period from the moment that the first book was copied until the introduction of intellectual property
- §01.01.10.00 — The invention of intellectual property
- §01.01.11.00 — Regulated and non-regulated dematerialised information
- §01.01.12.00 — The (re-)materialisation of information into digits (the digitisation of information
- §01.01.13.00 — Digitisation of information, a process still under way
- §01.01.14.00 — The digitisation of material, analogue-world information
- §01.01.15.00 — The digitisation of (already) dematerialised information
- §01.01.16.00 — Digital information is infinite
- §01.01.17.00 — Digital-born and digital world-only information
- §01.01.17.01
- §01.01.18.00 — Digital humans?
02 — Beings
02.00 — §02.00.00
- §02.00.00.00 — Beings
- §02.00.01.00 — Beings can and will process information
- §02.00.01.01
- §02.00.02.00 — Life is information processing
- §02.00.02.01
- §02.00.02.02
- §02.00.03.00 — All Beings, when they perish, become Things
- §02.00.04.00 — A distinctive characteristic of humans and states
- §02.00.05.00 — Humans need to augment their information processing
- §02.00.06.00 — Organisations
- §02.00.07.00 — Why do organisations come into existence at all? How do they die?
- §02.00.07.01
- §02.00.07.02
- §02.00.07.03
- §02.00.08.00 — Organisations have to live in the analogue world
- §02.00.09.00 — The state is an organisation
- §02.00.09.01
- §02.00.09.02
- §02.00.10.00 — States do not need to be formally incorporated in the analogue world
- §02.00.11.00 — Biological Beings do not have a purpose, while non-biological Beings do
- §02.00.11.01
- §02.00.11.02
- §02.00.12.00 — Artificial Beings
- §02.00.12.01
- §02.00.12.02
- §02.00.13.00 — Same time with the three milestone moments in humanity’s development
- §02.00.14.00 — The effigy of an artificial Being
- §02.00.15.00 — Artificial Beings cannot operate outside their state of origin
- §02.00.16.00 — Words (language)
- §02.00.17.00 — Money
- §02.00.18.00 — Computer programs
- §02.00.19.00 — A, materialised, fiction
- §02.00.20.00 — Artificial Beings do not have a need to survive and can die
- §02.00.21.00 — Artificial Beings can create Things and Beings
02.01 — Humans
- §02.01.00.00 — Humans
- §02.01.01.00 — Humans are Beings
- §02.01.02.00 — States turn humans into individuals, and make possible the augmentation of information processing by them
- §02.01.03.00 — Humans use Reason in their information processing in the same way as animals
- §02.01.04.00 — Humans differ from each other
- §02.01.05.00 — Are non-biological Beings different to each other?
03 — Things
03.00 — §03.00.00
- §03.00.00.00 — Things
- §03.00.01.00 — Every thing (all that is found in the analogue and the digital worlds that is not a Being) is a dataset
- §03.00.02.00 — Things, unlike Beings, cannot process information
- §03.00.03.00 — Things are either found in Nature or are created by Beings (artefacts)
- §03.00.04.00 — Artefacts
- §03.00.05.00 — Things (and Beings, in this regard) are to be treated as a single, unitary dataset
04 — Processing
04.00 — §04.00.00
- §04.00.00.00 — Processing
- §04.00.01.00 — Processing is any and every treatment of and interaction with information
- §04.00.01.01
- §04.00.02.00 — The processing of information leads to the creation of new information
- §04.00.03.00 — Processing is a collective term
- §04.00.04.00 — Processing is material
- §04.00.05.00 — The consequences of the materiality of the processing
- §04.00.06.00 — A beginning but not necessarily an end
- §04.00.07.00 — Co-processing is possible, but not all processing is equal
- §04.00.08.00 — There is no Being or Thing that is outside the control of a single, identifiable Being
- §04.00.09.00 — How a Being came to be able to exercise control over a dataset is beyond the scope of this analysis
- §04.00.09.01
- §04.00.10.00 — The state makes possible the control and rights to process information
- §04.00.11.00 — Neither humans nor states are aggressive by nature
- §04.00.12.00 — The processing of information by humans is made possible only on the information platform that is their state
- §04.00.13.00 — The processing of information is not a given nor is it static
- §04.00.14.00 — Use of information
04.01 — Reason
- §04.01.00.00 — Reason
- §04.01.01.00 — Reason is an algorithm
- §04.01.02.00 — There is Reason in all processing of information carried out by Beings
- §04.01.03.00 — Reason has no content
- §04.01.04.00 — The purpose of the processing is irrelevant to Reason
- §04.01.05.00 — A human to establish the purpose of any processing
- §04.01.06.00 — Why does Reason exist in Beings?
- §04.01.07.00 — Not neutral
- §04.01.08.00 — Is Reason specific to humans only?
05 — Need and opportunity
05.00 — §05.00.00
- §05.00.00.00 — Need and opportunity
- §05.00.01.00 — The processing of information is the result of need and opportunity
- §05.00.01.01
- §05.00.01.02
- §05.00.02.00 — Beings will process information because they have needs
- §05.00.02.01
- §05.00.02.02
- §05.00.02.03
- §05.00.03.00 — The need to survive; the conditions for existence
- §05.00.03.01
- §05.00.04.00 — It is not necessary for the processing to happen
- §05.00.05.00 — Is whatever that is necessary to serve a need also natural?
- §05.00.05.01
- §05.00.05.02
- §05.00.05.03
- §05.00.06.00 — The digital world
- §05.00.07.00 — Opportunity
- §05.00.07.01
- §05.00.07.02
- §05.00.07.03
- §05.00.08.00 — Ability
- §05.00.08.01
- §05.00.08.02
- §05.00.09.00 — Once need and opportunity are combined, various types of information processing can emerge for each Being
- §05.00.10.00 — On need
- §05.00.11.00 — On purpose in life
05.01 — A need specific to humans
- §05.01.00.00 — A need specific to humans
- §05.01.01.00 — Humans need to augment their information processing
- §05.01.02.00 — Augmentation of information processing, the need of needs
- §05.01.02.01
- §05.01.03.00 — Only humans need to augment their information processing
- §05.01.04.00 — Only biological Beings need to increase their information processing
- §05.01.05.00 — Augmentation towards an imagined (not real) end
- §05.01.06.00 — Creativity
- §05.01.07.00 — Humans need to augment their information processing individually
- §05.01.07.01
- §05.01.07.02
- §05.01.08.00 — There is no purposeless individual
- §05.01.09.00 — On human nature
- §05.01.09.01
- §05.01.09.02
- §05.01.09.03
- §05.01.09.04
- §05.01.10.00 — Whether humans are by their nature brutal or nasty or untrusting is beside the point in practical terms
- §05.01.11.00 — Why only humans need to augment their information processing?
06 — Control
06.00 — §06.00.00
- §06.00.00.00 — Control
- §06.00.01.00 — Control
- §06.00.01.01
- §06.00.01.02
- §06.00.01.03
- §06.00.02.00 — Total control is impossible
- §06.00.02.01
- §06.00.02.02
- §06.00.03.00 — There is no dataset without any control exercised over it
- §06.00.03.01
- §06.00.03.02
- §06.00.04.00 — Control over new or first-processed information
- §06.00.04.01
- §06.00.04.02
- §06.00.05.00 — Attributes of a dataset
- §06.00.05.01
- §06.00.05.02
- §06.00.06.00 — Access
- §06.00.07.00 — Control can be delegated
- §06.00.08.00 — Control is not pursued for its own sake
- §06.00.08.01
- §06.00.09.00 — Power
- §06.00.10.00 — On hierarchy, categories, and human understanding
07 — State definition - States are information platforms for their citizens
07.00 — §07.00.00
- §07.00.00.00 — State definition - States are information platforms for their citizens
- §07.00.01.00 — States are information platforms for their citizens
- §07.00.01.01
- §07.00.01.02
- §07.00.01.03
- §07.00.02.00 — In what sense are states information platforms for their citizens
- §07.00.03.00 — How is this definition best visualised?
- §07.00.04.00 — The mechanism through which this is accomplished
- §07.00.04.01
- §07.00.05.00 — These two pieces of information warranted by the state
- §07.00.05.01
- §07.00.06.00 — States create, store and disseminate information on their citizens
- §07.00.07.00 — States also create the processing environment necessary for their citizens to live in
- §07.00.08.00 — A state’s citizens
- §07.00.09.00 — States are Beings
- §07.00.10.00 — The question ‘what is the state’ must remain separate from other questions that may be relevant but could blur the picture
- §07.00.11.00 — Two clarifications, (a) on the state and (b) on citizenship
07.01 — Information platforms
- §07.01.00.00 — Information platforms
- §07.01.01.00 — What are ‘information platforms’?
- §07.01.02.00 — Platforms in the analogue world
- §07.01.03.00 — Platforms in the digital world
- §07.01.04.00 — The first formal definition of information platforms
- §07.01.05.00 — Parallels between the digital world and colonialism (as well as, company-states)
- §07.01.06.00 — The state as a digital platform?
- §07.01.07.00 — In what way, then, are states information platforms for their citizens?
08 — States are natural to humans
08.00 — §08.00.00
- §08.00.00.00 — States are natural to humans
- §08.00.01.00 — States were formed naturally, at the moment when humans gained self-consciousness and started to communicate
- §08.00.01.01
- §08.00.02.00 — Why did states individualise humans in this way?
- §08.00.03.00 — There is no distinction between modern and ancient states
- §08.00.04.00 — States remain necessary for humans’ (meaningful) existence throughout their lives
- §08.00.05.00 — Society
- §08.00.06.00 — The relationship between a state and its citizens is unchangeable and unbreakable
- §08.00.07.00 — Do wolves (or dogs) have a state?
- §08.00.07.01
- §08.00.07.02
- §08.00.07.03
- §08.00.08.00 — On the meaningful life
- §08.00.09.00 — On language and the state
- §08.00.10.00 — On family and the state
- §08.00.11.00 — On the so-called ‘state of nature’
08.01 — Names
- §08.01.00.00 — Names
- §08.01.01.00 — Names of humans
- §08.01.02.00 — Names have become more complex over time
- §08.01.03.00 — It is states that make the naming of humans possible
- §08.01.04.00 — Names of Things (and non-human Beings)
- §08.01.04.01
- §08.01.04.02
- §08.01.05.00 — An identification algorithm requires a registry
- §08.01.06.00 — The use of names as an individualisation mechanism is a human trait and development
- §08.01.07.00 — Individualisation in the digital world
- §08.01.08.00 — Logins and passwords
- §08.01.09.00 — Domain names (and other unique naming attempts)
- §08.01.10.00 — Names of computer programs
09 — State formation – from word of mouth to the modern state
09.00 — §09.00.00
- §09.00.00.00 — State formation – from word of mouth to the modern state
- §09.00.01.00 — States taking shape in the analogue world
- §09.00.02.00 — States were not artificially created by humans
- §09.00.03.00 — Writing made it possible for the state to take the form known to us in the analogue world
- §09.00.04.00 — State formation not to be confused with the creation of the information processing environment
- §09.00.05.00 — The transactional and territorial state
- §09.00.06.00 — Both of the above consequences have been challenged by the advent of the digital world
- §09.00.07.00 — Is there order in the state?
10 — What states need
10.00 — §10.00.00
- §10.00.00.00 — What states need
- §10.00.01.00 — What do states need?
- §10.00.02.00 — States need their citizens to continue living, communicating and creating on their platform
- §10.00.03.00 — A condition for the (continued) existence of states
- §10.00.04.00 — If and how states facilitate their citizens' augmentation of information processing is irrelevant
- §10.00.05.00 — States and individuals’ (their citizens’) interests are aligned, not conflicting
- §10.00.06.00 — A state does not reside in the hearts and minds of a certain group of individuals
- §10.00.07.00 — States need all of their citizens to augment their information processing
11 — The nature of the state
11.00 — §11.00.00
- §11.00.00.00 — The nature of the state
- §11.00.01.00 — What the state is, what the state has, what the state does
- §11.00.02.00 — What the state is
- §11.00.03.00 — The nucleus of the information platform
- §11.00.04.00 — What the state is not
- §11.00.05.00 — Modern states are the result of changes in the information processing capabilities of humanity
- §11.00.06.00 — The state is timeless
- §11.00.07.00 — What the state has (and does not have) - the state has no purpose
- §11.00.08.00 — The state does not do anything consciously
- §11.00.09.00 — The state does not have a pre-ordained order
- §11.00.10.00 — What the state does (and does not do)
- §11.00.11.00 — The state does not reason
12 — The government
12.00 — §12.00.00
- §12.00.00.00 — The government
- §12.00.01.00 — A state is different to its government
- §12.00.02.00 — What is a government?
- §12.00.03.00 — The (only) purpose of the government is to control the state
- §12.00.03.01
- §12.00.04.00 — How did governments acquire this purpose?
- §12.00.05.00 — How did governments come to be?
- §12.00.06.00 — Impossible to say how (or much less, why) that particular Being became chieftain, king or ruler over the first state
- §12.00.07.00 — Governments are natural to humans
- §12.00.08.00 — Controlling the state
- §12.00.09.00 — The state has no specific purpose, and the government does not offer it one
- §12.00.10.00 — On the digital world breaking down governments’ control over the(-ir) states
- §12.00.10.01
- §12.00.10.02
- §12.00.10.03
- §12.00.11.00 — A beginning-of-time model fundamentally and irreversibly eroded – Leviathan’s demise
- §12.00.11.01
- §12.00.11.02
12.01 — The political system
- §12.01.00.00 — The political system
- §12.01.01.00 — The political system is the set of rules applied by the government while it is controlling the state
- §12.01.01.01
- §12.01.01.02
- §12.01.01.03
- §12.01.02.00 — Political systems vary widely
- §12.01.03.00 — Two basic questions
- §12.01.04.00 — Morality in the system
- §12.01.05.00 — While a political system is necessary, the ways in which it responds to the above two questions are not predetermined
- §12.01.05.01 — Having said that, while addressing the questions of who and how, any political system necessarily takes into account the basics of an informational approach, which comprises the following elements
- §12.01.05.02
- §12.01.06.00 — The response to the who
- §12.01.07.00 — The response to the how
- §12.01.08.00 — A number of political systems have been devised to address the natural conflict between the government and its citizens
- §12.01.09.00 — The most basic assumption of all
13 — State justification
13.00 — §13.00.00
- §13.00.00.00 — State justification
- §13.00.01.00 — Some merit in examining a bit more closely other state justification theories
- §13.00.02.00 — Social contract theory
- §13.00.03.00 — Against social contract theory
- §13.00.04.00 — Religion
- §13.00.05.00 — Other state justification theories
- §13.00.06.00 — Utilitarianism
- §13.00.07.00 — Hegel’s idealism
- §13.00.08.00 — Marxism
- §13.00.09.00 — The welfare state
- §13.00.10.00 — State malaise
- §13.00.11.00 — The digital world
14 — State legitimacy
14.00 — §14.00.00
- §14.00.00.00 — State legitimacy
- §14.00.01.00 — States create, store and disseminate information on their citizens
- §14.00.02.00 — Creation of information
- §14.00.03.00 — Storage and dissemination of information
- §14.00.04.00 — Storage of information
- §14.00.05.00 — Dissemination of information
- §14.00.06.00 — Alteration of personal information
- §14.00.07.00 — State legitimacy
- §14.00.08.00 — These three processing operations can be carried out only by states in the analogue world
- §14.00.09.00 — Is control over these types of processing necessary?
- §14.00.10.00 — States do not engage in this type of information processing consciously
- §14.00.11.00 — Failed states
- §14.00.12.00 — Does legitimacy give rise to platform rights?
15 — State succession
15.00 — §15.00.00
- §15.00.00.00 — State succession
- §15.00.01.00 — States are temporal
- §15.00.02.00 — No set way in which a state dies, or is born
- §15.00.03.00 — Never a void
- §15.00.04.00 — How does a state die?
- §15.00.04.01
- §15.00.04.02
- §15.00.04.03
- §15.00.05.00 — What happens to a state after it dies?
- §15.00.06.00 — State succession
16 — Sovereignty
16.00 — §16.00.00
- §16.00.00.00 — Sovereignty
- §16.00.01.00 — Sovereignty means control
- §16.00.02.00 — By definition the state is sovereign on its platform – sovereignty is an empty word for it
- §16.00.03.00 — The state has sovereignty over its platform, but this does not mean that it will act upon it
- §16.00.04.00 — Who else could claim sovereignty? The government
- §16.00.05.00 — Why would the government strive for sovereignty?
- §16.00.06.00 — Sovereignty is for the government an unreachable and unattainable aim
- §16.00.07.00 — Sovereignty in the digital world
- §16.00.07.01
- §16.00.07.02
- §16.00.08.00 — On the Westphalian state
- §16.00.09.00 — On the relationship between sovereignty and legitimacy
17 — Territory and borders
17.00 — §17.00.00
- §17.00.00.00 — Territory and borders
- §17.00.01.00 — The territory of a state is its information processing environment
- §17.00.01.01 — A state’s borders
- §17.00.02.00 — Territory is connected with sovereignty
- §17.00.03.00 — Territory in the analogue world
- §17.00.03.01
- §17.00.03.02
- §17.00.03.03
- §17.00.04.00 — How state territoriality really works – site-specific locality is irrelevant
- §17.00.05.00 — Moving around in the analogue world
- §17.00.05.01
- §17.00.05.02
- §17.00.05.03
- §17.00.05.04
- §17.00.06.00 — Location and locality in the analogue world, in terms of state territoriality, are distracting, if not illusory
- §17.00.07.00 — The term ‘territory of the state’ does not have a static meaning
- §17.00.08.00 — Territory in the digital world
- §17.00.09.00 — New perspectives with regard to state territory possible through the digital world
- §17.00.10.00 — The link between control and location; the path from humans to individuals (and citizens) and to (today’s) users
- §17.00.11.00 — Users (instead of owners)
- §17.00.11.01
- §17.00.11.02
- §17.00.12.00 — The digital territory of a state
- §17.00.13.00 — What about artificial Beings?
- §17.00.14.00 — Borders
- §17.00.15.00 — Interoperability and data portability
- §17.00.15.01
- §17.00.15.02
- §17.00.16.00 — State security and cybersecurity
18 — Nation
18.00 — §18.00.00
- §18.00.00.00 — Nation
- §18.00.01.00 — Nation
- §18.00.02.00 — Impossible to say whether the formation of nations was a natural or an artificial development
- §18.00.03.00 — The formation of nation-states
- §18.00.04.00 — Nationality
- §18.00.05.00 — Are nations human-specific?
19 — Archipelago; where do the information platforms that are states live? The EU
19.00 — §19.00.00
- §19.00.00.00 — Archipelago; where do the information platforms that are states live? The EU
- §19.00.01.00 — Where do the information platforms that are states live?
- §19.00.01.01
- §19.00.01.02
- §19.00.01.03
- §19.00.01.04
- §19.00.01.05
- §19.00.02.00 — States are still in the ‘state of nature’
- §19.00.03.00 — State individualisation had never occurred until very recently, with the emergence of the EU
- §19.00.04.00 — International law and the UN
- §19.00.05.00 — In spite of the UN and the system of international law, states are still effectively in a ‘state of nature’
- §19.00.06.00 — Language, and thus common meaning, is missing among states too
- §19.00.07.00 — The stage of development of states today
- §19.00.08.00 — The EU as the platform for platforms
- §19.00.09.00 — Why have states stayed in a ‘state of nature’ for so long?
- §19.00.10.00 — Cosmopolitanism, and other (utopian) alternatives
- §19.00.11.00 — The EU
- §19.00.11.01
- §19.00.11.02
- §19.00.12.00 — Interoperability versus integration
- §19.00.12.01
- §19.00.12.02
- §19.00.13.00 — What the EU is and what it does
- §19.00.13.01
- §19.00.13.02
- §19.00.13.03
- §19.00.14.00 — The EU is a Being, specifically an organisation
- §19.00.15.00 — The EU archipelago is unique, the first of its kind
- §19.00.16.00 — Archipelagos enlarged
- §19.00.17.00 — Are archipelagos natural?
- §19.00.18.00 — States, because they are Beings, need an individualisation and identification mechanism
- §19.00.19.00 — If archipelagos individualise states, what will individualise archipelagos?
- §19.00.20.00
- §19.00.21.00 — The differences between an archipelago and a federation—or an empire
20 — Law
20.00 — §20.00.00
- §20.00.00.00 — Law
- §20.00.01.00 — The law is a materialised, written list of each dataset’s attributes
- §20.00.01.01
- §20.00.02.00 — Many laws?
- §20.00.02.01 — No unwritten law exists
- §20.00.03.00 — No law?
- §20.00.04.00 — No eternal law
- §20.00.05.00 — A few more clarifications on invented law (regulations)
- §20.00.06.00 — Regulations may be inevitable on the information platform that is the state, however their actual content is anything but
- §20.00.07.00 — Regulations are functional, operational and descriptive
- §20.00.08.00 — The fact that a regulation allows (or even prohibits) an action does not mean that this action will happen (or not happen) accordingly
- §20.00.09.00 — The digital world differs – a controlled environment
- §20.00.09.01
- §20.00.09.02
- §20.00.10.00 — Regulations are organised hierarchically
21 — Rights
21.00 — §21.00.00
- §21.00.00.00 — Rights
- §21.00.01.00 — Rights are not claims but permissions
- §21.00.01.01
- §21.00.02.00 — Rights are afforded by the state
- §21.00.02.01
- §21.00.03.00 — From the individual’s point of view a right is the ability to act
- §21.00.03.01
- §21.00.04.00 — Rights are material
- §21.00.05.00 — Rights are specific each time to certain categories of individuals
22 — Human rights
22.00 — §22.00.00
- §22.00.00.00 — Human rights
- §22.00.01.00 — Rights which apply to all citizens indiscriminately on the information platform that is their state are human rights
- §22.00.02.00 — Human rights are permissions afforded by the state
- §22.00.02.01
- §22.00.03.00 — The constitution
- §22.00.04.00 — The materialisation of human rights is a political decision
- §22.00.05.00 — Platform rights
- §22.00.06.00 — Equality, liberty and security (of information)
- §22.00.07.00 — Equality
- §22.00.08.00 — Liberty
- §22.00.08.01
- §22.00.08.02
- §22.00.09.00 — Security (of information, not of the person)
- §22.00.09.01 — Security of the person not a platform right
- §22.00.10.00 — Needs do not give rise to platform rights
- §22.00.11.00 — Platform rights and natural rights
- §22.00.12.00 — Platform rights may or may not be granted to individuals within any given state
- §22.00.13.00 — Platform rights apply only to humans
- §22.00.14.00 — Human rights in the digital world
23 — Morality
23.00 — §23.00.00
- §23.00.00.00 — Morality
- §23.00.01.00 — Regulations so well embedded on the information platform that is the state that they allow choice form morality
- §23.00.01.01
- §23.00.01.02
- §23.00.02.00 — An analysis of morality’s systems of thought (moral philosophies) is unnecessary within the context of this political philosophy
- §23.00.03.00 — Can morality be avoided altogether?
- §23.00.03.01
- §23.00.03.02
- §23.00.04.00 — On whether individuals should keep their promises
- §23.00.05.00 — On religion
24 — Property
24.00 — §24.00.00
- §24.00.00.00 — Property
- §24.00.01.00 — Property is control over a dataset
- §24.00.01.01
- §24.00.01.02
- §24.00.01.03 — A Being can be said to have property-like control over a dataset when it can destroy it
- §24.00.02.00 — Property is an attribute of a dataset
- §24.00.02.01
- §24.00.02.02
- §24.00.03.00 — Property is natural to all Beings (and, thus, is not a platform right)
- §24.00.03.01
- §24.00.03.02
- §24.00.04.00 — Property is not a pursuit for its own sake
- §24.00.04.01
- §24.00.04.02
- §24.00.05.00 — No property over humans
- §24.00.06.00 — Property is dependent on the state
- §24.00.06.01
- §24.00.07.00 — Property and sovereignty
- §24.00.08.00 — Appropriation
- §24.00.09.00 — Property in the digital world
- §24.00.10.00 — Property can be exercised over digital information
- §24.00.11.00 — Because humans are biological Beings, wealth can never exist for them exclusively in the digital world
- §24.00.12.00 — On inequality
24.01 — Intellectual property
- §24.01.00.00 — Intellectual property
- §24.01.01.00 — Intellectual property is a kind of property that is exercised over dematerialised datasets
- §24.01.01.01
- §24.01.02.00 — Crucially, intellectual property does not afford the owner the option to destroy the dataset
- §24.01.03.00 — Intellectual property, like property, is dependent on the state
- §24.01.03.01
- §24.01.03.02
25 — Freedom and liberty
25.00 — §25.00.00
- §25.00.00.00 — Freedom and liberty
- §25.00.01.00 — Freedom is the ability of individuals to process information to the greatest extent imaginable by them
- §25.00.01.01
- §25.00.01.01
- §25.00.01.01
- §25.00.02.00 — Freedom is impossible to attain
- §25.00.03.00 — Freedom is relative
- §25.00.04.00 — A human need to be free?
- §25.00.05.00 — Beings and the need to be free
- §25.00.06.00 — The state is at the same time the source of and the basic impediment to human freedom
- §25.00.06.01
- §25.00.06.02
- §25.00.07.00 — States are the only Beings that are truly free today
- §25.00.08.00 — Liberty
- §25.00.08.01
- §25.00.08.02 — Liberty is materialised freedom
- §25.00.09.00 — Liberty is also relative
- §25.00.10.00 — A platform right to liberty exists only with regard to other humans
- §25.00.11.00 — Liberty not analysed any further here
26 — Liberalism
26.00 — §26.00.00
- §26.00.00.00 — Liberalism
- §26.00.01.00 — The individualisation of humans and the limits of this philosophy
- §26.00.02.00 — The borders of this political philosophy of information
- §26.00.03.00 — Individualistic political theories
- §26.00.04.00 — The distinction between the public and the private spheres
- §26.00.05.00 — The inherent conundrum that individualistic theories have to deal with
- §26.00.06.00 — Why liberalism has had to come up with a number of ideas to limit government
- §26.00.07.00 — Why the middle political ground has a harder time than the extremes
- §26.00.08.00 — The most serious problem caused by individualistic theories is that they pit the individual against the state, causing state malaise
- §26.00.09.00 — The digital world and the right to informational self-determination
- §26.00.10.00 — The distinction between an individual’s private and public spheres has already been projected onto the digital world
- §26.00.11.00 — If the two basic premises underpinning much of modern human life are fundamentally flawed, what could replace them?