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An overview of the worldwide discussion of the information concept,
this book presents thoughts of scholars from various disciplines
including information and computer science, semiotics, system
science, evolutionary theory, physics, biology, psychology,
consciousness theory, sociology, and science and technology
studies. The shortcomings of the old fashioned Shannon and Weaver's
model of information are examined, providing insights into how
research of evolutionary systems could lay the basis for a new
theory of information that will bridge the gap between "hard" and
"soft" sciences.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach
to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of
the implications of this popular idea. The volume is organized into
four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and
sociological aspects of transhumanism, but the reader is free to
choose various reading patterns. Topics discussed include gene
editing, the singularity, ethical machines, metaphors in AI, mind
uploading, and the philosophy of art, and some perspectives taken
or discussed examine transhumanism within the context of the
philosophy of technology, transhumanism as a derailed anthropology,
and critical sociological aspects that consider transhumanism in
the context of topical concerns such as whiteness, maleness, and
masculinity. The book will be of value to researchers engaged with
artificial intelligence, and the ethical, societal, and
philosophical impacts of science and technology.
This book examines the contributions of the transhumanism approach
to technology, in particular the contributed chapters are wary of
the implications of this popular idea. The volume is organized into
four parts concerning philosophical, military, technological and
sociological aspects of transhumanism, but the reader is free to
choose various reading patterns. Topics discussed include gene
editing, the singularity, ethical machines, metaphors in AI, mind
uploading, and the philosophy of art, and some perspectives taken
or discussed examine transhumanism within the context of the
philosophy of technology, transhumanism as a derailed anthropology,
and critical sociological aspects that consider transhumanism in
the context of topical concerns such as whiteness, maleness, and
masculinity. The book will be of value to researchers engaged with
artificial intelligence, and the ethical, societal, and
philosophical impacts of science and technology.
This book is a scientific basis for understanding the urgent need
for a Great Transformation to a third step in social evolution.
Already being a community of common destiny, humanity can form an
actual unity through diversity to avoid extinction. Social actors
can recognise informational imperatives for cognition,
communication and co-operation to achieve such a unity. By doing
so, they apply a logic that underlies the structuration of any
agency, which is a real logic of self-organising systems from the
physical to the social. This logic is the Logic of the Third - the
Third is a meta-structure that emerges in a leap. The agents
interact and when they co-act they are likely to form a real
meta-structure of organisational relations. Informational agents
anticipate this by generating requisite information in their
attempt to cope with complex challenges. Such an information is a
meta-structure too. The Third helps achieve synergy effects.This
book discusses considerations from philosophy, systems theory, the
study of information, social systems, social information, ecology
and technology. It addresses ethical issues connected with the
long-forgotten arms race in an atomic age, the global warming not
yet under control, the pandemic misunderstood, the social question
still unanswered.
At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of
information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost
importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to
reconcile information concepts underlying science and technology
with those en vogue in social science, humanities, and arts are
rather rare. This book offers a new approach, departing from
fragmented information concepts.Many academics refrain from
undergoing unifications, as most undertakings are reductionistic.
This book contends that it is the noble task of an
as-yet-to-be-developed science of information to go one step in the
direction of a unified theory of information without falling back
into neither reduction nor anthropomorphisation.To be able to
succeed in an ambitious task like this, the book advocates the
application of complex systems theory and its philosophical
underpinnings. Information needs to be interpreted in terms of
self-organisation to do justice to the richness of its
manifestations. The way the book does so will provide the reader
with a deep insight into a basic feature of our world.The following
are discussed in the volume: A Science of Information; A New Way of
Thinking; Praxio-Onto-Epistemology; Evolutionary Systems Design;
Evolutionary Systems Ontology; Evolutionary Systems Methodology;
Capurro's Information Concept Trilemma; A Multi-Stage Model of
Evolutionary Types of Information: Pattern Formation, Code-Making,
and Constituting Sense; A Triple-C Model of Systemic Functions of
Information: Cognising, Communicating, and Co-Operating; Nine
Categories of Information Capabilities: Reflectivity (physical),
Psyche (biotic), Consciousness (human); Connectivity (physical),
Signalability (biotic), Languageability (human); Cohesiveness
(physical), Coherency (biotic), Communitarity (human); Nine
Categories of Information: Response (physical), Flexible Response
(biotic), Reflexion (human); Correspondences (physical), Signals
(biotic), Symbolic Acts (human); Assemblage (physical), Assignment
(biotic), Association (human); A Unified Theory of Information for,
about, and by means of the Information Society.
This book is the second volume of a two-volume edition based on the
International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on
'The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and
Responsibility of the Sciences of Information' (see
summit.is4is.org).The book gives an up-to-date multiaspect
exposition of contemporary studies in the field of information and
related areas. It presents most recent achievements, ideas and
opinions of leading researchers in this domain reflecting their
quest for advancing information science and technology. With the
goal of building a better society, in which social and
technological innovations help make information key to the
flourishing of humanity, we dispense with the bleak view of the
dark side of information society.It is aimed at readers that
conduct research into any aspect of information, information
society and information technology, who develop or implement social
or technological applications. It is also for those who have an
interest in participating in setting the goals for the sciences of
information and the social applications of technological
achievements and the scientific results.
This book is the first volume of a two-volume edition based on the
International Society for Information Studies Summit Vienna 2015 on
'The Information Society at the Crossroads. Response and
Responsibility of the Sciences of Information' (see
summit.is4is.org).The book represents a trans-disciplinary endeavor
of the leading experts in the field of information studies posing
the question for a better society, in which social and
technological innovations help make information key to the
flourishing of humanity and dispense with the bleak view of the
dark side of information society.It is aimed at readers that
conduct research into any aspect of information, information
society and information technology, who develop or implement social
or technological applications. It is also for those who have an
interest in participating in setting the goals for sciences of
information and social applications of technological achievements
and scientific results.
While a considerable number of scientists still today disbelieve in
the feasibility of a single generic concept of information, there
are several attempts to hypothesize or theorize information in a
unifying manner carried out by a strong minority of scientists.
However, the camp of the "unifiers" itself is heterogeneous. The
'Unified Theory of Information', as Wolfgang Hofkirchner came to
term his own approach, links information to self-organization. It
elaborates on arguments of dialectical philosophy in order to avoid
both the pitfalls of reductionism and dualism and seeks to
reconcile the 'hard' and 'soft' science perspectives of
information. Among the scholars who influenced his sciences of
complexity approach are- Edgar Morin, Ervin Laszlo, Werner Ebeling,
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Klaus Kornwachs, Klaus Haefner, Tom Stonier,
John Collier, Alicia Juarrero, Edwina Taborsky, Sren Brier, Claus
Emmeche, Robert Logan.
Der geborene OEsterreicher Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) gilt
als der Begrunder der Allgemeinen Systemtheorie. Die
Querschnittswissenschaft Systemtheorie hat damit ihre Grundlage
bekommen. Mark Davidson, Schriftsteller, Journalist, ehemaliger
Professor fur Kommunikationswissenschaften an der California State
University in Dominguez Hills, hat mit diesem Buch Bertalanffy ein
Denkmal gesetzt und eine leicht lesbare Einfuhrung in die
Systemwissenschaften vorgelegt. Es beschreibt eine
Wissenschaftsstroemung, die wie massgeschneidert ist, den
Herausforderungen unseres globalen Informationszeitalters zu
begegnen, und es mag mithelfen, Bertalanffy den Platz in der
oesterreichischen und internationalen Wissenschaftsgeschichte
zuzuweisen, der ihm gebuhrt.
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