The value added of organized information: from Floridi to Bennett Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia) ISKO UK 2015, London, July 13-14, 2015.

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The value added of organized information: from Floridi to Bennett Claudio Gnoli (University of Pavia) ISKO UK 2015, London, July 13-14, 2015

A skeptical reviewer... Does information theory make any difference (to a conference focused on impact of KO) ? I hope so :-) livescience.com

Information as a value

“It from bit” Anything is information... [Wiener 1961; Landauer 1967; Wheeler 1990; Davies 2010]

Ethics anthropo-centric (traditional beliefs) bio-centric (environmental concerns) onto- (info-)centric [Spinoza, Floridi]

If so......information science (and KO) would be a central discipline rather than an ancillary one ! [Bawden & Robinson 2013]

Information = good ? “being/information has an intrinsic value” “any informational entity has the right to persist in its own status and to flourish” [Floridi 2010]

Hence, entropy = evil ? “any kind of destruction, corruption, dispersion and consumption of informational objects [...] that is any form of impoverishment of reality” [Floridi 2010]

But then... has everything the same value ?! “The different kinds of information “cannot be seriously quantified” [Floridi 2013]

Informational phenomena matter life mind society heritage [Fleissner & Hofkirchner 1996; Capurro 2009; Gnoli & Ridi 2014] organization

Informational systems made of modules which combine variously selected by environment evolving [Haefner 1992; Bickhard & Campbell 2003]

Logical depth Organization resulting from long evolutionary computational paths [Charles H. Bennett 1985; 1988; 1990]

“Deeper” phenomena are more valuable because of their previous path Destroying them means losing the whole path Logical depth

Floridi + Bennett Molecules are indeed valuable... but monuments are much more. Information is as more valuable as it is organized

Logical depth “Destroy the physical properties in any object and the entire object goes, but the reverse is not true” [Feibleman 1954] Deeper objects are more vulnerable

Valuable personal knowledge Every person has experienced unique events and environments → is bearer of logically deep knowledge Mario Brignoli "Mastcin", Negruzzo (PV),

Valuable collective knowledge [Angelini 2005]

Valuable (folk) KOSs Very high logical depth... farmfolkcityfolk.ca

Documents (= anything intentionally gathered in order to convey some knowledge) possibly the logically deepest entities overall

Conclusions 1/2 Information is indeed valuable......but some forms are more than others.

Conclusions 2/2 Documents and KOSs are especially valuable → KO does make a big difference!

Thank