Title:
Information and the world stage. Volume 1 : from philosophy to science, the world of forms and communications
Author:
Dugué, Bernard, author.
ISBN:
9781119452850
9781119437017
9781119452881
Physical Description:
1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations
Series:
Engineering, energy and architecture set ; volume 1
Science, society and new technology series. Engineering, energy and architecture set ; v. 1.
Contents:
Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. A Presentation of the Paradigm of Information in the 21st Century; 1.1. After technology, the philosophy of information; 1.1.1. Information, issues and paradigms of the 21st Century; 1.1.2. Philosophizing means being concerned; 1.1.3. Technology affects us; 1.1.4. Information affects us; 1.1.5. Where can we situate a philosophy of information?; 1.1.6. The two philosophies, technology and information; 1.1.7. What is information?; 1.1.8. Universal thinking.
1.2. CRISPR-Cas9: from mechanism to information in biology; 1.2.1. Brief review of a significant scientific discovery; 1.2.2. From Monod's biology to information biology; 1.3. Toward a theory of the information act; 1.3.1. Image act, the power of images; 1.3.2. Thoughts about Horst Bredekamp's study, the theory of the image act; 1.3.3. Language and image resonances; 2. Communication Influences the "Mechanisms" of the Living World and Society; 2.1. Philosophical approach to cancer through information and immunity; 2.1.1. A note on a potential dead end in the research on cancer.
2.1.2. An alternative hypothesis: Darwinian carcinogenesis; 2.1.3. Leaving the current paradigm behind; 2.2. Fanaticism and fantasies, a "pathology" of information and its interpretation; 2.3. Scientific communication and modernism in contemporary societies [HAB 90]; 2.3.1. Distinguishing between technological and mediated activity through social norms and subjects; 2.3.2. Destructuring the subject and semantic mediations; 2.3.3. Scientific contamination of ideology and depoliticization of society; 3. Form, Information and Content.
3.1. Form and content, an old story that still affects our existences; ;3.2. Ontology of form and content; 3.3. Brief remarks about a type of philosophical and scientific research; 3.3.1. Structure and order of Content: logic and/or structure of form; 3.4. Ontology of form and Content, ending the issue of machines before machines end us; 3.5. The ontological difference and the path toward Being; 3.6. The three colors of Being and modernist perdition; 3.7. Brief notes on the oblivion of Content as ontological difference revealed by decline.
4. Mass, Charge, Gravity and Rays: Distinguishing Between the Two Kinds of Universal Physics; 4.1. Masses, arrangement and mechanics; 4.2. Electric charge, spin and dynamics of information; 4.3. Light-like and time-like geodesics in relativistic cosmology; 4.4. Overview of the dynamics of arrangement and information; 4.5. Einstein and the question of the field in physics; 4.6. The cosmological alternative in the 21st Century; 4.6.1. Provisional conclusion: what kind of physics for the 21st Century?
Abstract:
Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the "information paradigm", a notion which is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author presents an overview of the place of information and communications in our time, explaining some reasons for focusing on these two notions. All areas of knowledge are concerned: philosophy, social sciences, biology, medicine, as well as physics, the so-called "queen of sciences", from quantum to cosmos. This book is intended for scientific scholars as well as those with just a general interest who are anxious to understand the major evolutions that are taking shape in fields of knowledge in the 21st Century.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119437017Copies:
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