大数据技术的哲学审思

大数据依托云计算、系列分布式处理平台等技术,采集、存储、挖掘、分析海量数据,旨在全面反映事物发展样态,预测事物发展的基本规律与趋势。大数据时代,让数据"说话",改变了人们的日常生活和思维方式,更带来了深刻的哲学思考:以相关性消解因果性,以总体取代样本,以镜像化世界嵌入真实世界,以数据表征事实,以符号性等同真实性。只有深度把握好大数据的技术本质,才能避免滑入数据镜像的物化世界深渊,让大数据更好地服务社会。

Philosophical Reflection on Big Data Technologies

Big Data ,based on the technologies of cloud computing ,series of distributed processing platform and others ,has been utilized to collect ,store ,mine ,and analyze massive amounts of data ,with the purpose of pursuing a comprehensive reflection of the development of things and predicting the basic law s and trend therein .In the age of Big Data ,it becomes one of major speakers .It has changed our daily life and style of thinking ,and invoked more profound philosophical think‐ing :the correlation weakens the causality ,the total replaces the sample ,mirror images embed into the real world ,the da‐ta represent the facts ,and the symbolization is equivalent to the reality .It can prevent us from the abyss of mirror images and serve us better only if w e can understand the nature of Big Data technologies.