New Fundamentals of Informatics

• A book by Nishigaki Michi on the topic of Fundamental Informatics.

• About topics like singularity:

  • Here, the concept of Transhumanism is clearly expressed, suggesting the existence of a divine knowledge that logically explains the universe/world, surpassing human capabilities, and machines approaching this knowledge. In this sense, it can be said to be a monotheistic thought similar to Judeo-Christian beliefs.
  • Nishigaki Michi. New Fundamental Informatics (Japanese Edition) (p. 10). Kindle Edition.
    • Well, if you put it that way..? (blu3mo)
      • It is monotheistic (not polytheistic), but the rationale for this is not clear.
        • Perhaps the absoluteness of that knowledge is the rationale.

Conversely, this leads to the argument that the image of a unified universe/world that we believe to be the only reality may not actually be how humans, as a species, believe and describe it. This discussion also leads to the philosophical idea that since Kant, modern philosophy has argued that our understanding of the world should begin not from the absolute existence of “things-in-themselves” but from the “phenomena” for humans. Thus, the underlying assumption of the simple objective world in the computing paradigm is shaken, and instead, the discussion of neo-cybernetics arises, questioning how a comprehensive understanding with an objective viewpoint can be achieved from the localized subjective worlds of living beings.