Entropia epistemică și reziliența cunoașterii în infosferă
Epistemic entropy and the resilience of knowledge in the infosphere

Summary/Abstract: The expansion of digital infrastructures has managed to transform access to information on an unprecedented scale. However, the increasing availability of information has not been accompanied by a corresponding growth in orientation, understanding, or epistemic stability. This article argues that the central challenge of the digital age lies not in information scarcity but in the fragility of the conditions that allow information to acquire meaning and become knowledge. Drawing on the philosophical frameworks developed by Luciano Floridi and Byung-Chul Han, the text explores how acceleration, recontextualization, and the infrastructural organization of visibility affects the processes through which information is interpreted and validated. To describe this transformation, the article introduces the concept of epistemic entropy, understood as the progressive degradation of the interpretive and justificatory relations that sustain knowledge. In response, it develops the notion of epistemic resilience as the capacity of an informational environment to preserve the conditions necessary for evaluation, correction, and shared understanding. The article concludes that safeguarding knowledge in the digital era requires not only protecting truth claims but also sustaining the informational infrastructures that make meaning, interpretation, and epistemic orientation possible.

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