Territory in the digital world

The analogue world (Nature) is natural to humans, hence the information processing environment created and maintained by the state for them is similarly natural, necessary to live a meaningful life. The digital world is not natural to humans, at least not yet. At present humans do not need to live in the digital world to have a meaningful life. From this point of view (or until this becomes the case), any digital state territory is artificial, not natural to humans. Neither the analogue world nor the digital world was created by states. Humans, however, live in both; therefore there is no question that states exist in the digital world as well (because states are natural to humans). The analogue world has become what it is today after hundreds of thousands of years of human presence and information processing on it. The digital world has a history of only a few decades; however, it already makes new perspectives possible, including with regard to state territory.

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