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Web3 and Co-Creation

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Web3 and Co-Creation

“Web3 can be the negation of the negation.”

The Question

Can there be any web3 for co-creation?

One example that I have in mind is something like Mirror, in which posts could reference each other on-chain that could be viewed in a graph. This would facilitate visibility of relations between texts (or concepts), which would already facilitate an awareness and understanding.

Beyond Content Sharing

Other than facilitating visibility of relations between texts, one thing I’m interested in exploring is how this could then be used for co-creation and co-poesis — a collective process that could overcome opposition between ideas.

As we improve the process of co-creation of content, how can we then move from creating and sharing freely on a network — only, or mostly, content — and do the same for ideas and concepts?

Collective Knowledge

How can we facilitate the creation of collective knowledge that may lead to a bigger collective awareness and understanding?

This is where the dialectical potential of web3 emerges. If web1 was the thesis (read-only, centralized publishing) and web2 was the antithesis (read-write, but captured by platform capitalism), then web3 might represent a synthesis — or better, the negation of the negation — where collective knowledge production becomes possible without capture.

The Role of AI

How can AI then be used to develop further interconnected ideas?

The question is not merely technical but philosophical: how do we create systems that preserve the tension between individual insight and collective wisdom, that allow for genuine synthesis without reducing difference?

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” — Karl Marx