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E-grāmata: Emergent Information: An Outline Unified Theory of Information Framework [World Scientific e-book]

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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.
Preface v
List of Tables
xi
List of Figures
xiii
Part 1 Towards a Science of Information
1(34)
Chapter 1 The Dawn of a Science of Information
3(32)
1.1 In the Tower of Babel
5(10)
1.1.1 The rise and fall of "information"
5(3)
1.1.2 At the chaos point
8(1)
1.1.2.1 Disciplinary attempts
8(2)
1.1.2.2 Transdisciplinary attempts
10(5)
1.2 After the Information Revolution is Before the Information Revolution
15(6)
1.3 Adding to the Critical Mass
21(14)
1.3.1 "Normal science" information studies aims, scope, and tools
23(1)
1.3.1.1 Technocracy versus ivory tower
24(1)
1.3.1.2 Reification versus deconstruction
25(2)
1.3.1.3 Reductionism versus projectivism and disjunctivism
27(2)
1.3.2 A Science of Information paradigm
29(1)
1.3.2.1 Ensuring futurability
30(1)
1.3.2.2 Catching the ephemeral
31(2)
1.3.2.3 Taking the blind men's perspective
33(2)
Part 2 Steps To a Unified Theory of Information
35(200)
Chapter 2 A New Weltanschauung
37(24)
2.1 A New Philosophy
38(17)
2.1.1 A new way of thinking
39(2)
2.1.1.1 Reductionism
41(2)
2.1.1.2 Projectivism
43(1)
2.1.1.3 Disjunctivism
44(1)
2.1.1.4 Integrativism
44(3)
2.1.2 A new concept of practice-reality-method
47(8)
2.2 A New Cross-Disciplinary Paradigm
55(6)
Chapter 3 Nudges
61(20)
3.1 A Fresh Perspective on Human Strategies
62(10)
3.1.1 Practicism
63(1)
3.1.2 Utopianism, Romanticism
64(1)
3.1.3 Inactivism
65(1)
3.1.4 Deliberate activism
65(7)
3.2 Dealing with Complexity
72(9)
3.2.1 Cybernetics, informatics
73(2)
3.2.2 Magical thinking
75(1)
3.2.3 Laissez-faire
76(1)
3.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Design
76(5)
Chapter 4 Chaosmic Metasystem Transitions and Suprasystem Hierarchies
81(44)
4.1 A Fresh Perspective on the Real World Image
81(14)
4.1.1 Preformationism, atomism
82(3)
4.1.2 Teleologism, holism
85(1)
4.1.3 Indeterminism
86(1)
4.1.4 Less-than-strict determinism
86(9)
4.2 At Home in Complexity
95(30)
4.2.1 Evolutionism, modularism
96(1)
4.2.1.1 Evolutionism
97(2)
4.2.1.2 Modularism
99(1)
4.2.2 Creationism, structuralism/functionalism
100(1)
4.2.2.1 Creationism
100(2)
4.2.2.2 Structuralism, functionalism
102(1)
4.2.3 Spontaneism
102(1)
4.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Ontology
102(1)
4.2.4.1 Chaosmic complexity
103(3)
4.2.4.2 Emergent dynamics
106(1)
4.2.4.3 Contingent trajectories
107(8)
4.2.4.4 Path-dependent nestedness
115(10)
Chapter 5 The Adjacent Necessary
125(22)
5.1 A Fresh Perspective on Comprehension
125(14)
5.1.1 Scientism
126(4)
5.1.2 Anthroposociomorphism
130(1)
5.1.3 Irrationalism
131(1)
5.1.4 Reflexive Rationalism
131(8)
5.2 Grasping Complexity
139(8)
5.2.1 Empiricism
140(2)
5.2.2 Cabalistics
142(1)
5.2.3 Narrativism
142(1)
5.2.4 Evolutionary Systems Methodology
142(5)
Chapter 6 Objects are Subjects are Objects... Reflections in a Creative Universe
147(88)
6.1 Dissolving Capurro's Trilemma
148(20)
6.1.1 Synonymism
151(1)
6.1.2 Analogism
151(1)
6.1.3 Equivocalism
152(1)
6.1.4 Historical and logical conceptualism
152(16)
6.2 Emergent Information
168(67)
6.2.1 Evolutionary types of reflection: the Multi-Stage Model
173(4)
6.2.1.1 Pattern formation
177(2)
6.2.1.2 Code-making
179(3)
6.2.1.3 The constitution of sense
182(2)
6.2.2 Reflective systemic functions: the Triple-C Model
184(3)
6.2.2.1 Cognition
187(3)
6.2.2.2 Communication
190(3)
6.2.2.3 Co-operation
193(3)
6.2.3 The universe of information
196(4)
6.2.3.1 Constructs for reality: from response to flexible response to reflexion
200(11)
6.2.3.2 Constructing common ground: from correspondences to signals to symbolic acts
211(11)
6.2.3.3 Constructive synergy: from assemblage to assignment to association
222(13)
Part 3 Towards a Science for, about, and via the Information Society
235(22)
Chapter 7 A Global Sustainable Information Society
237(20)
7.1 Globalisation: The Emergence of World Society and its Brain
242(4)
7.2 Sustainabilisation: Friction Mitigation - The Hidden Agenda of the Information Revolution
246(5)
7.3 Informationalisation: ICTs for Collective Intelligence
251(6)
Bibliography 257(14)
Index 271
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