Self-ownership is part of individual anarchism theory. It is a radical concept of individualism, a overlap of liberal capitalist and anrchists concepts.
I too am a trained social scientist. I am glad to see you here! Do you think that the social sciences will become more scientific with the transparency inherent in blockchain/ open ledger technologies? For instance we have access to some of the same algorithms that major internet companies use, but not their data. Those same algorithms are being employed, by these private companies, inside of their own servers, to exploit us and make merchandise of our habits. If we were to turn these same algorithms loose on an open ledger what might we learn and how will it transform the social sciences? I am not mocking the "social sciences" just pointing out they are less scientific than say chemistry or physics. Are you aware of any institutions or academic disciplines aligning themselves with this technology?
a lot of interesting questions. Social science will become more data driven, what i guess is not a good thing. Remember the german positivism battle - Popper VS. Adorno. But when data driven it will be definitely better with blockchain. BUT - the big problem is. Data can just measure the current status of society, not the past, not how people can be and interact. So, for sociology we cant just measure, we must develop good theories and use data too, but not fetishize bits and bytes. Social science is not less scientific it is another science with own methods, working better for the subject.
what do you know about self-ownership?
Self-ownership is part of individual anarchism theory. It is a radical concept of individualism, a overlap of liberal capitalist and anrchists concepts.
I too am a trained social scientist. I am glad to see you here! Do you think that the social sciences will become more scientific with the transparency inherent in blockchain/ open ledger technologies? For instance we have access to some of the same algorithms that major internet companies use, but not their data. Those same algorithms are being employed, by these private companies, inside of their own servers, to exploit us and make merchandise of our habits. If we were to turn these same algorithms loose on an open ledger what might we learn and how will it transform the social sciences? I am not mocking the "social sciences" just pointing out they are less scientific than say chemistry or physics. Are you aware of any institutions or academic disciplines aligning themselves with this technology?
a lot of interesting questions. Social science will become more data driven, what i guess is not a good thing. Remember the german positivism battle - Popper VS. Adorno. But when data driven it will be definitely better with blockchain. BUT - the big problem is. Data can just measure the current status of society, not the past, not how people can be and interact. So, for sociology we cant just measure, we must develop good theories and use data too, but not fetishize bits and bytes. Social science is not less scientific it is another science with own methods, working better for the subject.
I am interested to see what you have to share. I will follow you and maybe we can engage in some conversation in your future posts.
thank you. Nice to meet you!