Dimensions of Social Mediums
Consider the following:
What is essential is not so much the concepts but the dimensions between them. Going from one medium to the next, we add a dimension labeled on the right. While each medium can be expressed in various ways, I chose not to distinguish between categories or examples—there are VR video games or interactive board games. These terms help anchor concepts rather than establish definitive boundaries.
There might be valuable variation and nuance as we increase dimensions.
i - ii: is a semantic dimension (shared language)
ii - iii: is a metaphorical dimension (shared art)
iii - iv: is a temporal dimension (shared memories)
iv - v: is an interactive dimension brought (shared exchanges)
v - vi: is a perspectival dimension (radical sense of self with the establishment of the social agent)
This final dimension expands the notion of agent-based social feedback across two dimensions: 1) internal-external and 2) reinforcing-expanding.
Mixed reality through multimodal/sensory stimulus interplay transports physical sensations into a crafted and curated world. The observer's spatial perception socially engages within this communication medium to intrinsically commit to and reinforce the new reality.
Distributed ledger technology extrinsically demands subscription to protocols that reinforce social constructs like trust across DAOs and digital communities.
Creative artificial intelligence engages with external entities to expand notions of decision-making with the intelligent other insofar as the axioms of artificial decision-making are sufficiently complex—often using non-traditional artificial intelligence.
Biohacking also pushes the boundaries of the social agent, however often in a sensory manner.
All quadrants adapt the notion of "the social self" as an agent.
Some prompts that came up when thinking about dimensionality:
How does the state-space of imagination change as we traverse dimensions?
How does this correlate to computational representations of different mediums?
Is there an underlying meta spanning these dimensions?
What are future dimensions?
How might the agent-based dimension expand?