In philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, perception is the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information...
There are a number of philosophies of perception, but I will be focusing (read: advocating) on dualism (representative realism).Ideas of mind/body dualism date back as far as Zarathushtra, with the generally well-known concepts attributed to Descartes which holds that the mind is a non-physical substance. It has also been visualized in the Chinese Yin Yang image, seen here. I will not delve deep into these concepts (for it involves a lot of arguments and questions, and is ultimately bloody) but will immediately try to associate it with what I'm currently doing.
The problem with perception is not in the question of "is it real?" but on the question of "where does it exist?". Direct, or naive perception would state that "it is what it is", but this would not be sufficient to answer the question of "is the glass half empty, or half full". Perception, I think, is the representation of an object in two forms, the physical and metaphysical.
In order to replicate this phenomenon on the digital world, there needs to be a way to represent the objects in the computer or Internet into a perceived representation of that said object. Hereby creating the illusion of physicality of data. Once this is achieved, data will no longer need to reside in one particular location, nor be uniquely addressable. Data integrity and security will be the property of the data and not the transport.
