3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 6: Reconstructing the Glass Bead Game. On the Philosophy of Information

tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation, Vol 8, No 2 (2010)

3rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 6: Reconstructing the Glass Bead Game. On the Philosophy of Information

Rainer E. Zimmermann, Simon M. Wiedenmann

Abstract

A computer playable version of the Glass Bead Game in the sense of Hermann Hesse’s famous novel is being presented and the various onto-epistemic as well as social implications of the game are discussed. In particular, the discussion focuses on aspects of the philosophical conceptualization of information within evolving social contexts.

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