THE OVERPOPULATION OF POPPER'S WORLD 3: RICK RODERICK'S VIEWS ON THE EXCESS OF INFORMATION IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD
THE OVERPOPULATION OF POPPER'S WORLD 3: RICK RODERICK'S VIEWS ON THE EXCESS OF INFORMATION IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The first part of this paper is an attempt to offer an overview of Popper's World 3 in the light of philospher Rick Roderick's concerns about the growing excess of information in our times (be they modern or post-modern). The first part of the paper tries to place Roderick's important words of caution from "The Self under Siege" into the Popperian cosmology and to investigate the ways in which these views can be seen as fitting in Popper's World 3 framework. The second part of the paper is the extension of one of the most famous World 3 thought experiments. This extension allows us to test some effects of the bearing on the human species as well as to explore the kind of fear that it causes.

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