Information is probably the single most important factor shaping the beginning of twenty-first century social life.Robert Logan,in his book "What is Information",explores certain issues related toinformation on the basis of the connotation of information itself,and puts forward two importanttheories of" extended mind" and "symbolosphere".Based on the strong-emergence theory,Logandepicts the material emergence and non-material emergence,and proposes a neo-dualism view,aweak form of dualism.According to this,different from the biosphere,the evolution andreproduction mechanism in symbolosphere do not follow the rules of genetic inheritance,but themechanisms of memes,belonging to the territory of information study.However,the new dualismfaces the difficulty to correctly explain the ontological position of the symbolosphere,while thephilosophy of information provides a standard solution in its theory of human evolution.
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