Philosophical-Anthropological Meanings of Postmodernism: qMediatizingq Human

Abstract

The author considers philosophicalanthropological images of a human of late modernism and postmodernism in the context of socio-cultural and technological changes of these periods. The authors analyzes principles of media information influence on a postmodern individual; social, personal and anthropological consequences of said influence are marked. Particular attention is paid to the allocation of the information society features, social media,-second‖ (A. Giddens)-mediareality, in which a person is included by the information producers and transmitters regardless of his own will and consciousness. The author addresses the issue of obtaining objective knowledge in an endless consistent flow of information. The author analyses Jean Baudrillard's concept of a simulation of the world, Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, Zygmunt Bauman's modernism and postmodernism, Roland Barthes' concept of a mythological media world. The author stresses human rational and identification capabilities, who is found under the constant influence of the media.

Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Computer Representation of Knowledge

“…In the article the concept of the epistemology of artificial intelligence (AI-epistemology) is formulated, which deals with the problems of representation, manipulation, acquisition, replenishment, generalization and classification of computer knowledge, problems of computer perception and computer understanding [21], [22]. The concept of computer epistemology, which explores the problems of understanding the essence of information, is also developed; studying the mechanisms of storage, translation and acquisition of information in computer systems (including computer knowledge); analysis of concepts of knowledge engineering.…”

The Fractal Nature of Implicit Knowledge

“…The depth and correctness of understanding are not the result of a linear process of consuming knowledge [11]. We can never with a high degree of accuracy perceive the knowledge of another individual due to a great number of small circumstances that influence the way of understanding and revealing certain semantic units.…”

Information Ecology in Structuring Sociocultural Space of Modern Society

“…Viewed in the context of universal-planetary worldview traditions as an integrity connecting information codes of the Universe, the Earth, its nature, culture and society, it reveals their correspondence not on the applied level (that is within the space of certain empirical objectives) but rather ontologically, i.e. revealing cultural-human, humanistic standard for informational organization of contemporary humanity existence [16].…”

“…As a result, it would be rightful to consider information ecology and worldview which expresses its essence as a basis that allows adjusting content-related parameters of sociocultural space in modern information society which justifies the need to include the subject in the process of finding solution to the problem of information flows volumes and content compliance with requirements of ecofocused human development [17]. It is also important to find "information measures" including information of the past and the future that is important for the preservation of human existence harmony.…”