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advances already made by pitfall, which gets deeper as its
powerful institutions such as the use expands exponentially.
USA Defence Department, the The definitions are made
European Commission, and difficult by the numerous
major governments MOU can notions of it in different
overtake them in the re- languages and by different
conceptualisation of cyberspace. governments having different
They, generally, define notions of it.
cyberspace to exclude its human The electron, with its
and time components and treat it indeterminate properties and the
as a technological phenomenon applications of it by the human
only. Others define it in mind, is the basis of CST.
metaphorical terms.
MOU can add time to The Need for New Ways of
cyberspace and go even beyond Socio-Cognitive Reinforcement
Einsteinian spacetime to be in CST as a virtual domain is an
line with the discoveries made enabling environment for
by quantum physics in energy interactive CMC and CSCW
and energy-field, the knowledge between and amongst its
of which makes the defining of electronic populace who
cyberspace even more difficult. embody diverse subjectivities,
Hypothetically, if the whole which transcend national norms,
of humanity were to vanish out laws, cultures, languages,
of existence CST will also religions, value-systems, and
vanish due to its disuse by identities.
human beings but the natural The new choices offered by
phenomena of energy, energy- CST may be unselective,
field, and space-time would uncritical, indiscriminate, and
remain intact. casual that result in a
Defining cyberspace results promiscuous array of values,
in an incomplete range of particularly, when the desire to
notions of what it is and is not. enter it becomes obsessive and
A philosophy of CST compulsive.
somewhat mitigates for this