Abstract:
Cyberism has developed from an initial conceptual proposal into a field of inquiry concerned with the relationship between humans and cyberspace. Instead of treating digital transformation simply as a technical process, this paper examines it as a broader reconfiguration of human life in the digital age. Its main aim is to outline a four-layer genealogy of Cyberism and to explain how these layers are connected, what questions they address, and how they may be studied. Methodologically, the paper combines literature review, conceptual analysis, and theoretical reconstruction. It revisits earlier studies on Cyberism and related branches, traces how the field has moved from conceptual discussion toward a more organized body of knowledge, and then reorganizes these discussions into a four-layer structure. On this basis, the paper also sketches a three-level research approach that brings together technical analysis, empirical social inquiry, and philosophical reflection. In this way, the study seeks both to clarify the basic structure of Cyberism and to indicate possible directions for further research. The first layer is the perception-interaction layer, which serves as the starting point of the analysis. It focuses on how cyber technologies reshape human sensory channels, bodily experience, and perceptual worlds. This includes the extension of external senses, the digitalization of internal bodily states, and forms of extrasensory expansion. From this perspective, perception in cyberspace is not simply the reception of information, but part of a technologically mediated way of being. This view broadens the conventional understanding of human-computer interaction and presents the body as an interface that can be extended, adjusted, and partially programmed. The second layer is the social-civilizational layer, which considers how technologically mediated perception reshapes collective life. The paper suggests that differences in sensory access, interface capacity, and the ability to disconnect may generate new forms of inequality. At the same time, code and algorithms increasingly operate as tools of governance, while digital memory systems affect historical continuity and cultural transmission. Seen in this way, Cyberism concerns not only technological change, but also shifts in power relations, social organization, and the structure of human communities. The third layer is the cognition-security layer, where cognition and security are discussed together. The paper argues that to understand the mind in cyberspace also requires attention to how it can be influenced, invaded, or disrupted. This layer therefore covers mental structure, cognitive ecology, intrusion and defense, and cyber-related pathological conditions. It shows that mental autonomy and cognitive resilience are becoming central issues in environments that are increasingly programmable and open to intervention. The fourth layer is the existence-meaning layer. Here the discussion moves beyond perception, society, and cognition to questions of identity, truth, death, responsibility, and the meaning of life in the cyber age. As memory becomes externalizable, consciousness becomes technically imaginable beyond the biological body, and identity is distributed across digital platforms, Cyberism also opens onto reflection on the basic conditions of human existence. In sum, the paper makes three main contributions. It sets out a four-layer genealogy of Cyberism, explains the progressive link between perception, society, cognition, and existence, and proposes a research approach that connects technical, empirical, and philosophical work. Taken together, these arguments suggest that Cyberism is moving beyond an initial conceptual discussion toward a more systematic field for understanding human life in the digital era.