The Phenomenon of Information in the Modern World: A Philosophical Approach
The Phenomenon of Information in the Modern World: A Philosophical Approach

Summary/Abstract: This article acknowledges that today, the scientific theory of information remains unclear. However, in the modern world, which is undergoing the transition to a new stage of development, that is, a postindustrial society (Industry 4.0), the phenomenon of information becomes a fundamental category of scientific knowledge and a constitutive feature of a new stage of development. In the context of the latest scientific concepts and experiments, from the philosophical point of view, information can be considered as “some initially assigned givenness” (Nalimov, 1989, p. 229). This approach allows us to assume that it is not information that is the way and means to acquire knowledge, as many researchers believe, but knowledge is the way and means to obtain information which is a fundamental essence of the reality. Almost all serious researchers note that the modern global megasociety is undergoing the transition to a qualitatively different state, which cannot be described with today’s universals of the worldview (of a human, world, global evolution of a human, world, society) (Letov, 2009). Different researchers name this qualitatively different state of the society variously: post-industrial society, post-capitalist society, post-economic society, super-industrial society, information society, the society of knowledge, etc. [...]

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