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Information and Creation - Integrating the "Two Cultures" (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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Information and Creation - Integrating the "Two Cultures" (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995)
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This book is devoted to one of the central problems of contemporary
thinking, for which c.P. Snow in 1959 coined the phrase of the "Two
Cultures". In this concept, human endeavour is directed on one side
to the (forward-looking) sci ences (mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biology, etc.) and on the other side to the
(backward-looking) humanities (including psychology, linguistics,
sociology, etc.). In this dichotomy Snow saw no possibility of
unification. On the other hand the urge towards self-consistency
and harmony in the mental and spiritual lives of both man and
society as a whole is clearly one of the major forces of
creativity, both scientific and artistic. This force aims at the
unification of the "Two Cultures" in order to build an integrated
self-consistent system for our intellectual life. Some attempts in
this direction have been made before, and will be described in this
book. It is our aim to contribute to the achievement of an
integrated mental life on the basis of information theory. In order
to construct our model, we examine the laws of information theory,
leading us to the deduction of the main laws inherent in both
"cultures". Thus, we consider the evolution of both non-living and
living matter, human behaviour, the phenomenon of language, the
sphere of aesthetics, etc. We hope that our work will be useful
both for researchers (who are trying to derive different integral
theories) and for various other "consumers" of scientific knowledge
(meaning broad circles of intellectuals).
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