A networked constellation lives in a shared symbolic space that exists only while its members act in it as if it were real; digital connection moves the social constellation into that space and loosens its tie to physical place. Ansary, ch. 29: people interacting through devices were "in a dimension that existed only socially a communally imagined landscape created through human intercommunication"; "The symbolic universe exists only by virtue of us agreeing that it exists. We make it real by interacting in that universe as if it's real"; "Smartphones made the idea of physical location meaningless." That a knowledge base is a constellation in this sense only while contributors act on it, so stored rows nobody argues with or acts on are an archive rather than a shared model, is Leo's step.

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  were doing so not in the physical world, but in a dimension that existed only socially a communally imagined landscape created through human intercommunication.

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  The symbolic universe exists only by virtue of us agreeing that it exists. We make it real by interacting in that universe as if it's real.

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  Smartphones made the idea of physical location meaningless.

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  As physical location detached from physical space, the whole interconnected human social web began to detach from the material universe.

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  And then it will be real for as long as the belief endures.

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  Since everyone was saying this to everyone, everyone saw this threat as real.

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