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- Title
ABSTRAKCJA, OBIEKTY I CYWILIZACJA GLOBALNA.
- Authors
Janusz, Robert
- Abstract
The article is about an interaction between philosophy and informatics. The discussion is based on a complex example -- a country, which has an evolving domain. In contemporary computer science very complex systems are modeled. However it would be impossible to model such systems with every detail, because it would be too difficult, it would be as complex as the reality itself. Frequently complex domains don't have an exact description of their behavior: some have an inadequate description, some have a contradictory one. To model such complex domains a computer science specialist acts like a philosopher: makes classifications, explanations, etc. On the other hand there have to be some philosophical presuppositions -- a conviction that a logical analysis and design will work in the domain being modeled: a postulate is introduced that logos is able to capture-in the reality. The descriptions are continuously purified from irrational influences. Informatics is the science of information, of processes, it is about the discrete world. With its algorithmic method it is possible to model a complex reality such as a country. But as was mentioned above, some kind of abstraction is necessary to construct the vocabulary for the objects and processes in the domain. There could be a temptation to use the model of a country as a model for the whole world. The question is whether it would work. There are a lot of different concepts of "globalizm" -- tendencies to construct a government to govern the whole world. But the concepts are in conflict and some social communities vary so much that it is difficult to find a common solution. On the other hand the social problems within a country have a tendency to evolve and change. In Informatics, there is a paradigm to model a real domain on the basis of "data abstraction". In this approach the constant and variable entities, as well as all operations of an interaction have to be found on the basis of abstraction. The article ...
- Publication
Forum Philosophicum, 2004, Vol 9, p203
- ISSN
1426-1898
- Publication type
Academic Journal