I am reading a brand new book about the science behind the "academic culture", that now leans strongly into information science. It is hard to read for me, well because it is so well written. news flash - my own prose is tortured. The book so far is making a case for a materialist view to all the uproar. And trying to take the reader on a reality adventure into an interesting topic. you can imagine all the ugly part of my nature coming out, in nothing but self-pity and jealousy.
ok, over it now..................
here are the things he says that are reasoned. After calling in John Wheeler's ghost, Caleb Scharf goes for target and makes a case for the fundamental natural role for information:
head-spinning? maybe when K. Sayre wrote about Informational Realism in 1976. But not so much now, 15 years after Oxford's L. Floridi defended of Informational Structural Realism. Since then, IR versions have come out as Quantum IR, Buddhist view of IR and the idea of Math Realism is a special case of Information Realism.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/f1d30b...&cbl=75937
I love the content of the above paragraph in the opening of "The Ascent of Information" (Books, Bits, Genes and machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm). The next paragraph not so pragmatic to me. It begins the defense of his term/concept - dataome.
ok, over it now..................
here are the things he says that are reasoned. After calling in John Wheeler's ghost, Caleb Scharf goes for target and makes a case for the fundamental natural role for information:
Quote: If we take this view of reality, then decisions of yes or no, red or blue, don't just enable analysis of the world. At the deepest level they actually create phenomena and their functions. If you think that it is head-spinning, well yes it is. But the overarching idea that information is something real, something that actually could pull the puppet strings on the world, and on us, is actually not so hard to grasp.
head-spinning? maybe when K. Sayre wrote about Informational Realism in 1976. But not so much now, 15 years after Oxford's L. Floridi defended of Informational Structural Realism. Since then, IR versions have come out as Quantum IR, Buddhist view of IR and the idea of Math Realism is a special case of Information Realism.
https://www.proquest.com/openview/f1d30b...&cbl=75937
I love the content of the above paragraph in the opening of "The Ascent of Information" (Books, Bits, Genes and machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm). The next paragraph not so pragmatic to me. It begins the defense of his term/concept - dataome.
Quote: Because at its core, the dataome is not just about what we get from our data, but what our data gets from us.