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Revision as of 11:12, 19 October 2023
Contents
Keywords
Paradigm
We use this keyword in two ways:
- To point to a general societal-and-cultural order of things where everything depends on everything else; and importantly to its basic fractal-like structure—where even the smallest detail reflects the overall shape of the whole big thing
- As Thomas Kuhn did; to point to
- new way to conceive a domain of interest
- which resolves the reported anomalies
- and opens a creative frontier to research and development.
The domain of interest here is not a traditional academic field, where paradigm shifts have been (as Kuhn demonstrated) relatively common—but information and knowledge in general.
The point here is this lovely paradox:
Comprehensive change can be easy—even when small and obviously necessary changes have proven impossible.
And that an impending new paradigm information—concretely transdisciplinarity—naturally begets the comprehensive societal and cultural paradigm; and that this new paradigm in information is now demanded by three categories of anomalies—each of them alone sufficient to mandate the change:
- Fundamental insights reached in science and philosophy
- Contemporary global condition
- New information technology
“[T]he nineteenth century developed an extremely rigid frame for natural science which formed not only science but also the general outlook of great masses of people.”
(Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy, 1964?)
Our culture is founded on an error.
Discovered and reported but not corrected.
“It is absolutely necessary to find a way to change course.”
(Aurelio Peccei, One Hundred Pages for the Future, 1981)
Our situation necessitates change.
Club of Rome story.
“We’ve entered an age of information glut. And this is something no culture has really faced before. The typical situation is information scarcity. […] Lack of information can be very dangerous. […] But at the same time too much information can be dangerous, because it can lead to a situation of meaninglessness […] where [you] live in a culture that is simply committed, through all of its media, to generate tons of information every hour, without categorizing it in any way for you.”
(Neil Postman, Interview to XY, 1990)
Information technology made things worse.
When in with old paradigm—more, faster, cheaper.
“Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.”
(René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy , 1641)
Logos
THE key meme...
