Cyberism: A Theory of Human-Cyberspace Relations

Humanity has long lived within three basic spaces: physical, social, and thinking space. The rise of electronic computers, the internet, and artificial intelligence has created a fourth space of existence: cyberspace, which now reshapes human production, everyday life, identity, social relations, values, and cognition. This paper proposes Cyberism as a field devoted to the systematic study of human-cyberspace relationships. It examines the basic questions of cyber philosophy, cyber science, and cyberlogic; the forms of the "human" in cyberspace, including cyborgs, digital humans, digital twin humans, and robots; technological issues such as sense-communication-computation-storage, data-information-knowledge-intelligence, ANI-AGI-ASI, human-machine integrated intelligence, and artificial consciousness; and social, cognitive, ethical, governance, disease, and health problems arising from life in cyberspace. The paper further outlines the disciplinary system of Cyberism and its implications for traditional academic structures, and considers its significance for human civilization, education, and technological innovation.