The Erotic Ontology of Cyberspace

Abstract

How does the metaphysical laboratory fit into human inquiry as a whole? What status do electronic worlds have within the entire range of human experience? What perils haunt the metaphysical origins of cyberspace? These are some of the questions that this chapter poses. By exploring various philosophies, the chapter seeks to give an account of the way entities exist in cyberspace and their ontological status. Describing a human's relationship with computers, the chapter introduces the concept of Eros where man searches for a home for his heart and mind and becomes spiritually dependent upon machines. In the end, we are faced with an amoral indifference to human relationships, an online existence that is intrinsically ambiguous. The chapter advises us that while we enter into the future of cyberspace, we must not lose touch of the body people who remain rooted in the energies of the earth.

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