面向CPST复杂系统的数字经济双重范式——赛博经济学(Cyber-Economics)与CPST经济学(CPST-Economics)

Dual Paradigms of the Digital Economy for CPST Complex Systems: Cyber-Economics and CPST-Economics

  • 摘要: 数字孪生、工业互联网、智能平台与AI代理系统正在重塑经济活动的组织与运行方式,经济系统日益呈现赛博、物理、社会与思维空间相互作用的复杂系统特征。现有数字经济研究分别关注传统经济活动的数字化、信息机制或虚拟场景,尚缺少连接数字原生经济活动与跨空间经济过程的统一分析框架。本文在CPST(Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking)四元空间理论及Cyberism(赛博学)哲学框架下,提出狭义赛博经济学(Cyber-Economics)与广义CPST经济学(CPST-Economics)。Cyber-Economics以C空间为主要内生空间,研究由代码、协议和数字身份支撑的价值创造、分配、交换与消费,并以“代码即法律”“注意力稀缺”“零边际成本与人为稀缺”“算法即市场”为第一性原理。当物质条件、现实制度和认知因素可以作为外生条件或边界约束处理时,相关问题可在Cyber-Economics框架内分析;当C、P、S、T四类因素共同内生决定经济结果时,则进入CPST-Economics的研究范围。CPST-Economics分析数据、算法、物质基础设施、制度关系、人类认知与AI代理如何通过跨空间作用共同影响价值形成、资源配置和市场运行。本文界定了两种范式的空间边界、核心命题与递进关系,为CPST复杂经济系统的后续建模、机制设计、仿真分析与经验检验提供空间化概念框架。

     

    Abstract: The rapid development of digital twins, industrial Internet systems, intelligent platforms, and artificial intelligence (AI) agents is reshaping the spatial basis and operating mechanisms of economic activity. Cyberspace has evolved from an information-transmission channel into an environment in which production, exchange, pricing, governance, and consumption can take place directly. Existing studies on the digital economy, information economics, and virtual economies explain important aspects of these changes, but a unified framework connecting digitally native economic activities with cross-space economic processes remains limited. Under the philosophical framework of Cyberism and the Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking (CPST) four-space framework, this paper proposes two connected paradigms for the digital economy: Cyber-Economics in a narrow sense and CPST-Economics in a broad sense. The study adopts a theory-building approach based on spatial differentiation, conceptual comparison, boundary identification, and proposition construction. It distinguishes economic activities whose core rules are mainly generated within cyberspace from those whose outcomes are jointly determined by cyber, physical, social, and thinking factors, and then defines the spatial boundaries, research objects, analytical priorities, and logical relationship of the two paradigms. A key boundary criterion is established: when physical conditions, real-world institutions, and cognitive factors can be treated as exogenous constraints or boundary conditions, the problem can be analyzed within Cyber-Economics; when C, P, S, and T factors jointly and endogenously determine economic outcomes, it falls within CPST-Economics. Cyber-Economics focuses on digitally native economic activities supported by code, protocols, digital identity, and programmable rules. Its research objects include digital assets, decentralized autonomous organizations, digital currencies, programmable finance, metaverse economies, AI-generated content, attention-based platform activities, and markets involving AI agents. Four first principles are identified: “Code is Law,” “Attention Scarcity,” “Near-Zero Marginal Cost and Artificially Constructed Scarcity,” and “Algorithm as Market.” These principles explain how digitally native markets differ from conventional markets in rule formation, scarcity creation, value realization, and market organization. CPST-Economics extends the analysis to complex economic systems formed through interactions among cyber, physical, social, and thinking spaces. It examines how data and algorithms interact with material resources, institutions, social relations, human cognition, preferences, and AI-supported decision making. Four central propositions are developed: value emerges from cross-space interaction; economic actors become CPST composite agents; data and intelligent capabilities become important productive factors; and markets increasingly operate as hybrid fields jointly shaped by algorithms and institutions. The two paradigms form a progressive structure within the same theoretical system. Cyber-Economics can be regarded as a special case of CPST-Economics when analysis is mainly confined to digitally native space, while CPST-Economics broadens the scope by incorporating material, institutional, social, and cognitive dimensions. For subsequent research, digitally native settings are suitable for computable mechanism analysis, algorithmic games, multi-agent simulation, and empirical analysis of platform or on-chain data, whereas cross-space problems can further employ system dynamics, complex networks, digital-twin simulation, causal inference, and policy experiments. By defining the spatial boundaries, first principles, core propositions, and methodological directions of the dual paradigm, this paper provides a spatially grounded framework for future modeling, mechanism design, simulation, and empirical testing of CPST complex economic systems.

     

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