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COJ Reviews & Research

“What Could Be the Concept of Time in Relation to Behavior in the Virtual World?”

  • Open or CloseNadine Touzeau*

    Researcher in Cybercriminal Behavior, France

    *Corresponding author: Nadine Touzeau, Net-profiler, Researcher in Cybercriminal Behavior, France

Submission: November 21, 2018; Published: November 28, 2018

Abstract

By questioning several people, when asked to define time, they all have a different approach. Their notion of time is specific to their vision, their interpretation of the speed of events in response to their needs and emotions. Many scientists have their own theory of time, which sometimes contradict others. If Galileo [1] has quantified time by mathematical measures, time measurement implicitly presupposes an orientation of time from the past to the future. The speed of the element’s movement in space can be constant or not. A measure that allows us to know or even predict the time it will take to do this or that act. Added to the physical aspect, without obscuring Albert Einstein’s theory of Relativity [2], the perception of the human being deserves to be integrated. Depending on the profile, emotions, cognition, memory, time duration can be subjective [3] or objective. If everyone agrees that time is irreversible, how can time in a virtual space be measured scientifically from a behavioural point of view? With regard to my scientific theories, “Avatarization”, “Virtual Intelligences”, “Transverse Zone” developed in my scientific publications [4] and my books concerning Net profiling [5-11] and related my research about behavioural differentiations between the real and the virtual, I wonder about the concept of time in virtual space, this impalpable, fast and interactive space. Certainly, the focus will be on the behaviour of virtual space users, including cybercriminals. Heraclitus [12] and the atomists [13] proposed to confuse matter with movement. According to them, everything is mobile. Since this is the case, how does the human behind the screen integrate and quantify this notion of time?

Keywords: Net-profiling; Concept of time; Transverse zone; Cyber space; Virtual space; Behavioral differentiation; Avatarization; Virtual intelligence

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