Knowledge - Science - Math under the IT Rule and the Rise of the Fourth World
Knowledge - Science - Math under the IT Rule and the Rise of the Fourth World

Summary/Abstract: The tradition of the last few centuries allows mathematicians to reveal purely formal meanings, science to add to them meanings acquired through experiment formally supported by mathematics, and to them knowledge adds purely experimentally accessed meanings. Information technology, IT, manages, in the last few decades, to change the hierarchical balance established between sense, significance and syntax in the trio formed by knowledge, science and mathematics. By relating to IT, the relationships between the latter change, primarily because their nature is strongly influenced by the new actor on the scene of the interaction of the human mind with existence. The relationship with IT of each form of access to the meanings of existence becomes dominant, and the interaction between these forms is increasingly intensified through information media. The central and mediating position that TI acquires induces more complex and nuanced relationships in the knowledge - science - mathematics trio, which will hopefully allow access to a wider range of meanings. In the IT-dominated context, we highlight the emergence of a fourth world of unstructured and/or unreliable information.

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