Abstract
The aim of this work is to present extended informatics paradigm (EIP). This paradigm expands concept of informatics from traditional information and communication technologies (ICT) to a wide use of informational thinking, databases and related technologies in biology and psychology. The essential difference of EIP is an especial attention to nature and purpose of information in organized biological and/or psychological systems. Information as a phenomenon appeared on the Earth 3-4 billion years ago, when the life originated. Informatics paradigm considers the physical and chemical transformations of energy and matter as flows that are controlled, or as the signals for purposive informational control programs. Brain as product of biological evolution accomplishes a quick information processing, thinking and psychical activity. The information is born in control systems of organized systems. The organized systems are represented as informational closed-loop coding-decoding structures. Therefore, the scope of bioinformatics which is generally taught as a skill to deal with biological data bases should be extended, as well as the subject of informational psychology.
Highlights
A new approach emerged in sciences fifty years ago, when cybernetics, information and automatic regulation theories appeared, and computers were invented
The scope of bioinformatics which is generally taught as a skill to deal with biological data bases should be extended, as well as the subject of informational psychology
The concept of an organized coding-decoding system explains the biological phenomena from a point of view of functional organization, cybernetics, control and information theory
Summary
A new approach emerged in sciences fifty years ago, when cybernetics, information and automatic regulation theories appeared, and computers were invented. It was beginning of information paradigm that had become basis for new comprehension of living nature, humanitarian and social phenomena in terms of information and control systems. Soul is often perceived as mentality or psychics in psychology and philosophy These concepts can be reconstructed from the new informational point of view. Informatics paradigm gives a possibility to reintroduce soul and consciousness concepts to scientific view of world and vindicates them from purely mystic perceiving. More deep changes of society can be conjured up by more full understanding of live nature (biosphere) and human mind (noosphere) that will emerge from wide use of EIP in biology and biotechnologies, in psychology, anthropology and social sciences. The heralds of extended informatics paradigm in sciences are bioinformatics (in a wide interpretation) and informational psychology.
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