The Space Collective is a place for new ideas, and as such, some of them may be elusive even for forward thinking terrestrials.
This dictionary is meant to be a collaborative effort help familiarize members of the collective (and possibly curious foreigners) with terms native to or born within the SC.

If you happen upon something that needs clarification, please contribute herein. Thank you.


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Infocology: (n)
Information-ecology. Information-based habitat.

The term infocology first appears as: "Of infocologies (information ecologies): because the information in our hyperconnected reality is ambient and all pervasive, creating infospheres streaming into each other." via Wildcat // "Of Onions and Infocologies"

Cited in:
"A cyber Soaring Humanity"
"Of Onions and Infocologies"

Infocologies are not opinion or knowledge umbrellas made to shelter us from chaos, but on the contrary, they are mind habitats, operating in a highly sophisticated information environments, allowing us the dealing with the chaotic in a manner that is both indefinite and thus smoothening the contours of our existence, and precise, and thus increasing our capability for discrimination and distinct correlarity.

Infocologies permit a different kind of multiple realities to co-habit the normalization of our thought streams.

Multiplicities are the hallmark of a metastable infocology that licenses itself to variations, variability and variety.

Infocologies are particular kinds (or cases) of Cas (complex adaptive systems) and lend themselves to evolution into Topos (see- A Topos in a Polytopia- what is)

Infocologies can be said to belong to second order cybernetics, particularly because an infocology described by its constituents (the infonauts or Polytopians) changes and evolves by the very act of self-description.

via Wildcat // "A cyber Soaring Humanity"


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Knowmad (n) // Knowmadic (adj):
A hyper-connected being within the infocology;
a curator of data who seeks to find new answers to the question of "how to live" and is especially concerned with the synthesized issues of knowledge & connectivity in the modern age.

A knowmad may be a kind of "floating head" // via MeganMay.

Cited in:
"Hybrid Futures: Knowmads and the Notion State"


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