A ontologia dos objetos digitais na perspectiva do conceito simondoniano de concretização

Abstract

The attempt to establish an ontology of digital objects involves complex issues. The reduction of this ontology to the level of logic is not sufficient to encompass such ontological complexity and, even less, to shed light on the axiological consequences of such a discussion. Although digital objects are programmed within the scope of computational logic, they have guaranteed their role as mediators, between man and nature, as much as material technical objects, insofar as they are part of the technical actions indisputably present in the dynamics of today's society. However, if works on the ontology of material technical objects are already scarce, those focused on an ontology of digital objects are even rarer, even though these two classes of objects constitute an important part of the social structure. We find in the work of Gilbert Simondon a path focused on the ontology of material technical objects. The question that guides us here concerns the possibility of extending such an ontology to digital objects and pointing out the main limits and divergences raised by the peculiarities of this other class of objects. To do so, we resort to the renowned concept of concretization, central to the Simondonian ontogenesis of material technical objects, to apply it also to digital objects.