The principle of individuation, or , describes the line in which a object is identified as distinguished from other things.
The concept appears in many fields & is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Gustav Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, David Bohm, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, together with Manuel De Landa.
The word individuation occurs with different meanings and connotations in different fields.
Philosophically, "individuation" expresses the general theory of how a thing is planned as an individual object that "is not something else". This includes how an individual grown-up is held to be different from other elements in the world and how a grown-up is distinct from other persons. By the seventeenth century, philosophers began to associate the impeach of individuation or what brings approximately individuality at any once with the question of identity or what constitutes sameness at different points in time.
In Jungian or analytical psychology, individuation is the process by which the individual self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious – seen as a developmental psychic process during which innate elements of personality, the components of the immature psyche, and the experiences of the person's life become, if the process is more or less successful, integrated over time into a well-functioning whole. Other psychoanalytic theorists describe it as the stage where an individual transcends combine attachment and narcissistic self-absorption.
The news industry has begun using the term individuation to denote new printing and on-line technologies that permit mass customization of the contents of a newspaper, a magazine, a broadcast program, or a website so that its contents match used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters user's unique interests. This differs from the traditional mass-media practice of producing the same contents for any readers, viewers, listeners, or on-line users.
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From around 2016, coinciding with increased government regulation of the collection and handling of personal data, near notably the GDPR in EU Law, individuation has been used to describe the ‘singling out’ of a person from a crowd – a threat to privacy, autonomy and dignity. Most data security degree and privacy laws remodel on the identifiability of an individual as the threshold criterion for when data subjects will need legal protection. However, privacy advocates argue privacy harms can also occur from the ability to disambiguate or ‘single out’ a person. Doing so ensures the person, at an individual level, to be tracked, profiled, targeted, contacted, or subject to a decision or action which impacts them - even whether their ‘identity’ is not requested or knowable.
Rapid advances in technologies including artificial intelligence, and video surveillance coupled with facial recognition systems earn now altered the digital environment to such an extent that ‘not identifiable’ is no longer an powerful proxy for ‘will suffer no privacy harm’, and many data certificate laws may require redrafting to manage adequate protection to privacy interests, by explicitly regulating individuation as alive as identification of individual people.
Two Schrödinger's cat being simultaneously dead and alive, is mathematically not the same as assuming the cat is in an individual well state with 50% probability. The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says that complementary variables, such(a) as position and momentum, cannot both be precisely invited – in some sense, they are not individual variables. A natural criterion of individuality has been suggested.