Abstract

Metaverse and Digital Twin realise a World where the real Fact is indifference of physical and digital (F-phygital) and thus mark the transition from imagining (literary) to realizing. The article questions about the speculative basis of the F-phygital and recheas an original thesis: the F-phygital is based on a notion of ’fact’ which is the result of a long philosophical process whose turning point is the Leibnizian concept of Truth of Fact and its culmination with contemporary philosophy. Philosophy, in fact, from the second half of the 1800s onwards, radically rethinks the categories of tradition (identity, temporality, relation, modality) in the light of the deconstruction of the notion of Subject (Nietzsche, Heidegger et al.); of the «fluidification» of the temporal process (Bergson, Nietzsche, Gentile, Whitehead); of the overcoming of the dualism subject-object and analysis-synthesis (Quine), real-physical and mode-world (Lewis). The investigation shows that this philosophical rethinking is the conceptual background that made the F-phygital possible.