Prolegomenon to an Informational Philosophy in Reality

Joseph E. Brenner,Abir U. Igamberdiev

doi:10.3390/proceedings47010056

Abstract

In the acceptation of Wu Kun, the Philosophy of Information is a metaphilosophy incorporating informational-philosophical stances on major epistemological and ontological questions. Examples of Brenner’s contributions to previous Philosophy of Information conferences include work on personal identity, symmetry, semiotics, social competence and responsibility, as well as, together with Wu, the informational revolution in philosophy itself. In this approach, the necessity of a non-standard logic of real processes was demonstrated. In this paper, Brenner and Igamberdiev analyze the dialectics and logic underlying the application of Informational Philosophy. The utility of their approach is further demonstrated in the areas of meaning and semiotics, as well as information itself and communication. A new characterization of dynamic units of thought, and hence of information processes, is suggested in advance of a planned, more detailed treatment.

Highlights

Philosophy, science and logic are systems of thought devised by human beings to describe their world and what it means to exist in it
The value of philosophy, especially today in the West, has been diminished by several major errors: the work of Aristotle and other classical Greeks, as well as later Western European thinkers, has been misused and misunderstood, without proper attention being paid to necessary corrections and extensions made possible by modern science
The value of dialectics as the basis of reasoning, and the need for a logic based in science rather than language, are major examples

Summary

Introduction

Philosophy, science and logic are systems of thought devised by human beings to describe their world and what it means to exist in it. The value of philosophy, especially today in the West, has been diminished by several major errors: the work of Aristotle and other classical Greeks, as well as later Western European thinkers, has been misused and misunderstood, without proper attention being paid to necessary corrections and extensions made possible by modern science. Aristotle gives the basis for modern bivalent linguistic logic, and for a logic that refers to actualizations and potentialities in a physical world of processes. We will propose an extension and development of, and to, the second logic of Aristotle that is grounded in modern physics. This makes possible an understanding of real processes in terms of what is essentially a non-Boolean logic. The resulting ‘dialectical realism’ may make possible a more ethical development of knowledge for the common good

The Scope of Philosophy in Reality

Information and the Laws of Thermodynamics

Meaning and Convergence of the Science and Philosophy of Information

Epistemons and Ontolons

Summary and Conclusions