Scope of Fundamentals of Informatics： Neo-Cybernetics as an Intellectual Revolution

https://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/manage/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/83_2.pdf Foundations of Information Science

• What is the grotesque rift that characterizes the modern information society? It is none other than the dark chasm between the transformative nature of the surface of society, accelerated by rapid technological advancements such as the web and mobile information devices, and the intractable academic stagnation that pervades its depths.

• Aims to establish the foundations of various fields that deal with information.

  • Examines the “basic concepts about information.”
    • What is this?
  • Its main feature is the focus on the semantic function of information, where “meaning” emerges
  • and the mechanism by which it propagates is analyzed using a self-referential systems theory.

• It can be said that the major cause of the academic confusion mentioned above was the hasty introduction of communication engineering concepts into the so-called social communication schema among humans, which led to the confusion surrounding information and information quantity.

  • @_anohito: Shannon’s information theory completely detached information from semantics, enabling advanced information communication and processing. If there is a theory related to content, it can be said that it is an effort to reintroduce the once discarded “semantics” into information technology.

    • Is this what they’re talking about? (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
    • Shannon

• The difference between the information (meaning) handled by humans and the information handled by machines is the cause of the problem.

  • The former is called an autopoietic system, while the latter is called an allopoietic system.
  • Oh, it’s about Systems theory.
    • It’s not quite clear to me. (blu3mo)

• The trend of Neocybernetics

  • Cybernetics controls the state of the target system through feedback loops, but the model itself assumes an open system with an absolute observer outside the target system. However, in second-order cybernetics, the observer itself is incorporated into the model, forming a closed system, so to speak, through a “double loop.”

  • No, I still don’t understand Systems theory at all. (blu3mo)(blu3mo)