Crypto Valley Lab Co., Ltd. / KOK Foundation CEO Young-gyu Choi
â—‡ Reality and chaos
Metaverse’s core technologies include various extended reality (XR) technologies such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). The reality here is’Reality’ in English. Why not call it “virtual facts” or “extended truths”? What is’reality’?
What we say as fact refers to something that really happened or is now, something that really exists, or something that is valid with respect to a set standard of evaluation. Reality has the meaning of reality or reality, which refers to what is considered to exist objectively independent of the subject of recognition. It is distinct from those created by the cognitive subject, such as dreams and delusions. If we think about the subject and object of perception,’reality’ is a matter of perspective on the object seen from the subject, and’reality’ can be said to be an existence as an object separated from the subject. On the other hand,’Truth’ is the only fact that is revealed when distortion, concealment, and error are all excluded, and it is often related to human beliefs or beliefs, and searching for truth inevitably involves evaluation of the facts. .
As discussed above, it is important that’reality’ is’existing’, and that there are’subjects’ and’objects’. In other words, it is the’reality’ that will be dealt with in the metaverse. However, the universe is a’existence’ that cannot be thought of separately from the subject and the object. Since the metaverse is also a universe, a similar theory of the universe will be applied.
Metaverse Governance and Chaos Theory
Just looking at how we live in Korea and America these days reveals how complex the reality of the present world is, and how difficult it is to design governance that will work well in this present world. However, the governance of the metaverse, which can guide humans to the world of experience expanded to humans, including the present world and extended reality, is similar to considering two-dimensional and three-dimensional things in multiple dimensions. So metaverse governance can be much more difficult. The rapid increase in difficulty can be predicted by looking at the history of the development of the web in the past and in progress. Compared to Web 1.0 for Read, Web 2.0 for Read/Write, and Web 3.0 for Read/Write/Execute with the concept of smart contract, Web 4.0 will probably implement the concept of Read/Write/Execute/Link. Since the metaverse contains this Web 4.0 concept, the difficulty will be beyond your imagination.
Newtonian mechanics has been developed based on a linear system that can predict the result if the initial conditions are correctly set, so the deterministic worldview is the basis. In this worldview, the separation of subject and object was taken for granted, and it was understood that the two did not affect each other. Then, in quantum mechanics, it was concluded that the subject and the object cannot be separated, and the experimental results may change depending on how the experimenter intends. After that, the problem of unpredictability in the microscopic world was overcome to some extent with probability theory, but unpredictability in the macro world remained a problem. In particular, how the parts come together and cooperate with each other to work as a whole is still not fully understood theoretically.
With the emergence of Fractal and Chaos theories in the academic world where research has been conducted separately without finding the link between the entity and the whole, we began to understand the mechanism that connects the whole and the entity. Because none of the elements that make up nature do not affect each other, we live together as a common destiny, resonating together in a nonlinear system. This society and the universe seem to be a super-life society called Holacracy that has the properties of self-management and self-organization. I think the metaverse will eventually evolve into such a holacracy.
The design of token economy and governance in the pre-Metaverse blockchain mainly used Reverse Game Theory and Irving Fisher’s Quantity Theory of Money. In the metaverse, I think that alone will not be enough. Perhaps, Fractal Theory and Chaos Theory should be supplemented. This is because’Imitation and Link’, which is a characteristic of Homo sapiens and a way of survival, will continue in the metaverse and will be expanded and accelerated. Among the metaverse platforms that have emerged in recent years, the task of analyzing the behavior of platform participants and determining rewards by applying the chaos theory called’Ramanujan’s Equation (Black Holes)’ is also encouraging.
â—‡Handle and brake
In the previous columns, I described the present as the’Conscious Technology (CT) Era’, and the main product of this era was’Linkage’. Through consciousness techniques, we have seen that we have a connection to extended reality and expand our experience. In addition, it is said that digitized technologies will expand explosively as editing and convergence become easier. This technological advancement, if compared to a car, is the creation of a more powerful engine. Cars equipped with these engines can run vigorously because the steering wheel and brakes are together. This analogy will apply to all areas of human civilization to which technological advances are applied, but it seems even more so in the rapidly changing metaverse realm.
I believe that humanity’s accumulated humanistic literacy and empathy can serve as such a steering wheel and brake. This is because humans know the importance of cooperation and community, and are a being who yearns for solidarity and interaction.
