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Information and the world stage. from philosophy to science, the world of forms and communications / Volume 1 :
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey :
ISTE : Wiley,
2017.
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| Colección: | Science, society and new technology series. Engineering, energy and architecture set ;
v. 1. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?