Vol.7, No 1, 2009 pp. 113 - 121
UDC 14 Roderick R. : 14 Popper K.R.
316.776
THE OVERPOPULATION OF POPPER'S
WORLD 3:
RICK RODERICK'S VIEWS ON THE EXCESS OF INFORMATION
IN THE POSTMODERN WORLD
Dušan Stamenković
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš
The first part of this paper is an attempt to offer an overview of Popper's
World 3 in the light of philospher Rick Roderick's concerns about the growing
excess of information in our times (be they modern or post-modern). The
first part of the paper tries to place Roderick's important words of caution
from "The Self under Siege" into the Popperian cosmology and to investigate
the ways in which these views can be seen as fitting in Popper's World
3 framework. The second part of the paper is the extension of one of the
most famous World 3 thought experiments. This extension allows us to test
some effects of the bearing on the human species as well as to explore
the kind of fear that it causes.
Key words: information overload, World 3, complex meaning, existence,
epistemological fear
PRENASELJENOST POPEROVOG SVETA
3:
POGLEDI RIKA RODERIKA NA INFORMACIONI VIŠAK
POSTMODERNOG SVETA
Prvi deo ovog rada predstavlja pokušaj da se Poperov Svet 3 sagleda iz
perspektive odnosa filozofa Rika Roderika prema pojavi informacionog viška
u svetu u kome živimo (bilo da ga nazovemo modernim ili post-modernim
dobom). Rad najpre pokušava da upozorenja kojima Roderik počinje niz
predavanja pod nazivom "The Self under Siege" smesti u Poperovu kosmologiju
i da ispita načine na koji se ona odnose na Svet 3. Drugi deo ovog rada
je, u stvari, pokušaj proširenja postojećeg Poperovog eksperimenta za
ispitivanje Sveta 3. Ovo proširenje nam omogućava da vidimo neke od efekata
pritiska ovog informacionog viška na ljudski rod i da ispitamo strah koji
ovakav višak izaziva.
Ključne reči: informaciono preopterećenje, Svet 3, kompleksno
značenje, postojanje, epistemološki strah
