Definition: A medium, where humans can create and engage, within a shared collective digital context, as equal participants within a closed economy; subject to mutually re-enforcing social cohesion with a net positive impact for all participants. The metaverse is the contextual foundation for a digital world and digital commerce. The metaverse provides the legal framework that links the metaverse assets to the real world of ownership, via possession with Legal Title. It is inherent in the definition of a metaverse, that it must be preceded by and hence there must exist a conventional and concrete world. A metaverse implies a world or conception that requires the “real” world in order to move beyond it and hence acknowledge the existence of a digital world.
The metaverse cannot exist without the pre-existence of a convectional world, and hence its existence is bound to such pre-existence.
Digital assets now exist with digital scarcity, enforceable legal rights, and subject to legal title claims outside of the metaverse. Enforceable legal title to digital assets underpins the metaverse digital economy and all metaverse trade via, digital coin (as legal tender) based payments, with legal finality.
Founded upon self-sovereign, digital Secure Identities, with security preserving non-repudiation; supporting trade, via digital coin based payments, with persistent legal ownership and hence the accumulation of digital assets, which have realizable exchange value within and external to the digital world participants.
Legal title is the recognizable and enforceable ownership of property (legally encoded, non-fungible, digital assets as tangible property).
While the membership of a metaverse based community, is not constrained in any way, the focus areas to the left: form the target communities, within both the physical and virtual worlds. The intersection of the physical and digital worlds is the metaverse economy, as instantiated via a marketplace with a range of economic agents supplying services and digital assets to the closed community membership.
The marketplace provides the Infrastructure required to support each metaverse community, via a range of free-market, economic agents.
Initial Economic Agents:
Recovery Agent Provider
Vaulted Digital Asset Provider (legally immobilised tangible property)
Sentinel Proof of Existence Provider (precedence of title claims)
Market Maker Provider (cross metaverse payments and trade)
Payment Provider (legal tender digital coins)
Market Operator(s) (Secure Identity, and non-repudiation)
Digital Deed Provider (Transfer of Digital Title and property rights over digital assets)
The metaverse membership reaffirms faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of metaverse members and have determined to promote social progress and a better standards of life for all. The metaverse ascribes the following natural rights to its membership, that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and hence are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws). Natural law is the law of natural rights:
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
No member shall be held in slavery or servitude to another member.
Every member has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
Every member shall have the right to a self-sovereign Secure-Identity, which is under a members exclusive control.
Every Secure identity shall have the ability to demonstrate the authenticity of ones Identity via non-repudiation.
No member shall be subject to surveillance or tracking of a members activities within a metaverse.
Every member shall have a right to exert control over their personal data and property to the exclusion of all others.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
No one may be compelled to belong to a metaverse.
Every member has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
Every member shall have the right to remain within or leave a metaverse community without coercion or penalty.
Every member shall have an inalienable right to posses, own, delegate rights to and exert control over private property to the exclusion of all others.
Each Metaverse shall be a digitally secure and closed community.
A multiverse has been envisaged within the multi-dimensional extension of string theory known as M-theory. In M-theory our universe and others are created by collisions between p-branes in spacetime; each universe takes the form of a D-brane. Objects in each universe are essentially confined to the D-brane of their universe, but may be able to interact with other universes via a force which is not restricted to D-branes. The anthropic principle could then be applied to conclude that we would only consciously exist in those metaverses which are finely-tuned for our conscious existence. In digital cosmology, a metaverse is the lowest level, Groups of metaverses through partnerships and user demand can evolve into a Multiverse. At the highest level, there is Omniverse which essentially becomes an overarching term that covers all the Metaverses and Multiverses that not only exist but will exist..
When M-theory is applied to a concreate metaverse, in economic terms the flow of value between each brane is restricted to capital flows, via the World Currency Unit tangible commodity in digital form.
Max's equation of capital applies to both the physical universe and the metaverse or brane worlds, surplus value can only be created via the allocation of capital. The final goal M-C-M' is the circulation of capital within a creator based metaverse economy, via M' - M as surplus value (economic production).