On 2/28/07, Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> wrote:
P.S. I wonder - when did the notion of "information" separated from notion of "knowledge" in philosophical sense? Isn't it connected with emergence of computers, Internet, etc.? Does anybody have any ideas about it?
A very interesting question. Others on this list probably know a lot more, but I would suggest at least two trajectories: The disembodiment of mental processes after Descartes and the quantification of knowledge in the 19th century. At any rate, when Shannon writes his historical paper on the mathematical theory of information in 1948, the process is complete: Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27(July; October), 379-423; 623-656. I would suggest Katherine Hayles as a possible source: Hayles, N. K. (1999). How we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 0226321460 Best, Charlie Breindahl