Information and the World Stage: From Philosophy to Science, the World of Forms and Communications [Hardcover]

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.

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Foreword ix

Introduction xiii

Chapter 1 A Presentation of the Paradigm of Information in the 21st Century 1

1.1 After technology, the philosophy of information 1

1.1.1 Information, issues and paradigms of the 21st Century 1

1.1.2 Philosophizing means being concerned 3

1.1.3 Technology affects us 4

1.1.4 Information affects us 6

1.1.5 Where can we situate a philosophy of information? 8

1.1.6 The two philosophies, technology and information 10

1.1.7 What is information? 11

1.1.8 Universal thinking 14

1.2 CRISPR-Cas9: from mechanism to information in biology 15

1.2.1 Brief review of a significant scientific discovery 15

1.2.2 From Monods biology to information biology 17

1.3 Toward a theory of the information act 22

1.3.1 Image act, the power of images 22

1.3.2 Thoughts about Horst Bredekamps study, the theory of the ls(