作为信息数字编码发展的产物,大数据扑面而来并整体呈现出一个不同于物能世界的信息世界。作为不同于物能存在的信息存在,大数据具有重要的存在论意蕴。由于越来越以数据网络的形式存在,且通过使物能存在网络化,大数据意味着存在的升级。这种存在升级意味着存在由物能世界到数据世界的扩展,信息和物能存在的网络一体化,存在过程及其把握的更高维度的提升,人和世界存在与发展信息层次的一体化展开。基于信息存在的大数据形态,不仅可以得到“ontology”涵义从本体论到存在论嬗变的大数据观照,看到从本体论到存在论、从实体存在论到关系存在论、从最基本的物的存在到最高层次的人的存在、甚至从存在到非存在嬗变的逻辑,而且可以看到存在的未来已来维度,从而进一步看到大数据基础上存在论与人类生存和发展的更深层次关联,直至存在论的人类学意蕴。
The Ontological Implication of Big Data
Wang Tianen(Shanghai University)
Abstract As the product of the development of information digital coding, big data presents an information world different from the material world as a whole. As an informational existence different from the material existence, big data has important ontological implications. Big data means the upgrading of existence, as it increasingly exists not only in the form of data networks, but also by enabling things to exist on‐ line. The upgrade of existence has been bring by big data means the expansion from the material world to the data world, the network integration of informational and material existence, the promotion of higher dimensions of existence process and its grasp, and the integration of information levels of the existence and development of human and the outside world. Based on the big data form of information existence, we can not only get the big data view of the evolution of the meaning of ontology from ontology to existence, but also see from ontology to existentialism, from entity existentialism to relational existentialism, from the existence of the most basic matter to the existence of the highest level of human beings, and even from the "existence" to "nonexistence". Moreover, we can see the future dimension of existence, so as to see the deeper correlation between ontology and human existence and development on the basis of big data, and see the anthropological implication of ontology at a deeper level.
Key words big data;ontology;information encoding;existentialist implication
■ 作者简介 王天恩,哲学博士,上海大学哲学系教授、博士生导师,上海大学伟长学者;上海 200444。