Emerging Knowledge Based Society (Information Society) and new Consciousness formation

• Information Revolution and forming Global Information Environment Impact on main components of National Power and living conditions of social- political communities
• Changing the meaning of knowledge and consciousness in conditions of Information Revolution
• Possible interpretation of Global Consciousness, True, God and Religion from the point of view of Information Revolution trends
• Changed and extended reality given us in our sensations and outer world perception demand conceptualisation of the new extended reality model of INKARM that bounds together physical world with its space-time-mass-energy (3D-T-M-E) paradigm and information-bounded-with-material-world.

1. Strategic aspects of National Power in conditions of Information Revolution

1.1. Background. National power according to Hans Mogenthau "Politics Among Nations"

1.2. National State Guarantees and Function for people

• Defence of state and citizens
• Social Foundations and Moral
• Free development/realisation of personality
• Free Initiative realisation - important aspect for saving/keeping active people linkage to national community
• Extending living space (independent of geographical place) - language, culture
• External relations
• Living conditions enhancement
• Is it right to say that USA live out of it's resources (power, mineral, food)
• Globally taking into account technology producing and exporting it could be normal

1.3. Will National State die out in conditions of building Global/Open Information Society

• Will IS be Global?
• Will Global IS become Open?
• Will Open IS demand/need Global State structure?
• What new feature National State have to obtain (to merge to)?
• What is the stronger stabilising factor - state or transnational industry corporation involving into production process countries, people and local which main feature is uninteruptable, development and stability.

1.4. New Possibilities in current situation analysis

• We have a big volume of historical way mankind experienced what can help us to find apply some analogies
• Researchers in developing countries and countries with emerging technologies can compare different formation and production structure - Head in IS via Internet but legs in industrial or Agricultural Ages
• Accustoming new technologies and space - Information Environment
• First intuitive philosophy of Information Age are formed now among Technical experts/specialists
• Networking IT is the most rapidly developing industry ()
• Active specialists (at the age of 30-45 years) now went through all spectrum of computer technologies
• what allow them assume some prognosis and
• extract/find global relations
• Being on the technological hedge they become the source of new visions and philosophical ideas

1.5. About National Security, Power and Knowledge (information) dissemination

• In Knowledge Based Economy new criteria and notions should be applied to measure National Power and Productivity growth
• Applying knowledge to processes and objects
• Applying knowledge to knowledge
• Knowledge Hierarchy building for knowledge subject/people reproduction and distribution - Who is on the Top?

• BEST EXAMPLE of using knowledge for mutual benefits although initial goals were different, particularly, donor intended acquire power and increase security by obtaining allies and against intruders
• This is invention of Cyrillic alphabet by Cyrill and Methody in Byzantine to extend Christianity and Religion/Faith to East Slavic via literacy and book
• East Slavic peoples had their own literacy already
• Cyrillic alphabet in difference from Latin alphabet is more perceptive - it has more letters which fit better sound character/features of the Slavic language
• Model or growth of National power and Security of Knowledge producers
• Always knowledge has intention for dissemination
• It prepare market and customer
• Establish it's own rules as firstcomer and discoverer
• Indirectly secure it's lifestyle and moral
• Knowledge is a base for forming consciousness and moral principles
• Information processes intensity of American life demands higher moral and responsibility from people and employees
• Very similar to Religion dissemination - via knowledge and their use
• Knowledge dissemination assumes building Knowledge Pyramid/Hierarchy that will provide knowledge development
• Rising global responsibility of knowledge producer - Testing, debugging - Microsoft
• High dynamics and long feedback in knowledge distribution and acquisition
• KBCo - it's the structure of production, dissemination, testing, maintenance
• One of the indication of National Power in KBE is a dynamics of knowledge production and reproduction
• Existence of quick/agile and slow nations
• The Age of dynamic knowledge

• Knowledge Pyramid Structure
• on the top - knowledge or knowledge reproduction tools producer
• in the bottom - knowledge implementer that sometimes understand the knowledge as categorical imperatives
• Information Technologies and Knowledge define correspondent social structure - democracy
• 1992 - year of Soviet Union destruction
• 1992 - Internet advent in Soviet Union with Research Communications and foundation Relcom Company

• USA entering in IS and facilitation of IT development up/lift it on the top of Global Pyramid of Knowledge/IT production and distribution which is not ruled by old principles
• How to find approaches to save Power and Control
• Where does treat go from - from inside or external?

1.6. With GII development "Power" doesn't become concentrated in the center - it becomes distributed

• Contradiction between former seem/image of power concentrated in the national borders and global activity of transnational companies that is increasing
• Former centralised state is loosing power and control
• Do the need of saving centralised power exist? - For what? What have we keep/save in new trends?
• In KBS the power should survive the main asset of the KBS - knowledge.

How can we do this?
• How to keep secure of GII? GII includes telecom infrastructure, information and prospective knowledge infrastructural components

Does need for centralised power (in What form?) exist - for keeping order and securing infrastructure and community functioning?
• What is the NEW components/objects of power in KBS?
• Knowledge production system - KB industry/economy, production management
• Knowledge (workers) reproduction system/process - education, skills, migration
• Knowledge dissemination system/structure/hierarchy - Knowledge Network, DataBases, GII
• Security: Infrastructural, Information System and KNOWLEDGE or CONTENT
• Cultural Content - moral, harassment, convergence, living space, etc.
• Former Power attributes
• ownership (technology, know-how, realty, land)
• money
• political power, influence
• commanding, ruling, people control
• What are the changes for people and rulers?
• Free information distribution - Loose control on information distribution
• Free speech and publication - Censorship
• Global Cultural/Living space

1.7. With Mankind Development the globality of National Power definition and product exchange increased

• Power/Security of single man
• Power and physical force of the tribe enforced by some old tools and arms
• people
• tools, minerals
• speaking tales
• Agricultural Age power
• minerals, handicrafts and food
• books, manuscripts
• Industrial power
• Industry products + food + tools
• books, technology knowledge
• Technological Power
• Global unions, transnational corporation
• + technologies + information + knowledge
• Information Society
• Knowledge forming consciousness, behaviour, moral
• Extending virtual living space
• Culture

1.8. Brain drain and workforce migration problems

• Global and national/local points of view
• Contradiction between interests of IS countries (USA - first, G7) and developing and "slow" countries in absorption of intellectual people
• including teleworking, virtual companies and work via Internet
• What can be useful for countries "exporting" high-tech workers?
• Service and environment infrastructural development
• Community's intellectual growth
• (Service) Investment attraction
• technological knowledge dissemination
• Skills enhancement motivation

2. Education and Research in Global Information Environment

2.1. Active role of Education in building Information Society and forming necessary knowledge

• forming base knowledge and motivation for constant improvement of knowledge and skills
• forming moral principles of coexistence in open IS accepting of majority of truths and inadmissibility of harmful impact/doing because of global impact of any actions in global information environment
• setting up of life-long learning motivation
• free access for learning materials and training materials.

The education area is becoming now the place where many technologies meet, converge and are tested by real practice and coexistence. Education area/activity is becoming important part of general companies' activity (notwithstanding the structural affiliation - to company or university). Education becomes a conductor and promoter of new technologies and area where new approaches and new social imperatives are forming now.

2.2. GII provide the following powerful possibilities for Research conducting and management

• new media of results presentation
• access to information sources
• electronic publication and results dissemination
• involvement of many researchers into cooperative and coherent problem solving
• knowledge dissemination and global integration
• instantaneous information exchange
• tasks and processes modelling
• possibility to create and operate in knowledge network - hyperlinked structured information environment
• problem solving assistance

2.3. New aspects of education and research in networked information environment and IT usage are based on approaching assistance tools to the real process of abstract thought process

• facilitation and extension of abstract thought process by extension of it's information and knowledge base
• providing tools for multimedia images manipulation and processing
• replacing and supporting information processing by information/knowledge access in growing structured information environment
• increasing contributive effect of education and training

2.4.Classroom integration into Internet

• Classroom integration into Internet will demand special approach for curriculum design and instructional methodology used that should be focused on reaching main teaching goals because of learners in such environment have real choice "to stay" in the class or escape into Internet surfing.
• Curriculum have to take into account existence of such global information environment as Internet.
• Teacher must afraid that his/her students will be lost in the open global information space.
• Education and culture globalisation and internationalisation shall not impact on national cultures.
• In this circumstances education at it's initial stage have to inoculate national and cultural values to learners. (Students should accept priorities of national values in integration into the global IS).
• During education and further lifelong learning people should take over new global criteria (but not change values) applying and adopting them to the national values.

• This approach can play constructive role even in the case of inevitable "brain drain" (physical and via teleworking) caused by growth of transnational corporations and global workforce integration and migration.
• In general this process is inevitable because of objective development of transnational corporations that utilise and integrate the most important value of mankind - human intelligence. Conformity to international criteria in professionality and skills will raise common professional and knowledge level among local specialists.

• Development of GII and communication infrastructure will be facilitated by
• needs of distributed knowledge based workforce access and integration
• needs for national and cultural information resources access

2.5. Problem with "professionally lost" generation in countries with emerging technologies

Rapid technology changes and economy IT-directed restructuring in Ukraine (as country with emerging technologies) rise another problem with "professionally lost" generation. Wide demand of knowledge intensive qualified workforce in IT (and programming particularly) causes problems with completed professional education. Students that have at least initial knowledge in IT and programming are absorbed by many small companies for serving their IT needs. In difficult economical situation they are forced to earn money that, in general, contradict with needs for intensive learning according to curriculum.

Young people of the third-fourth years in Universities go to professional sphere without formed professional credo that could affect their potentiality to innovative qualification growth in the future. Professional consciousness should correspond to the professional knowledge to secure constant and successive professional growth and knowledge acquisition but not only skills.

2.6. IT impact on information presentation and knowledge learning/mastering

i.e.

New IT facilitate/catalyse forming of new level of thinking

• operation with information and knowledge objects, structures, links
• not processes but objects
• Internet/WWW technologies and Web-design are best tools for forming and training information/knowledge level of thinking
• hyperlinked information presentation and access
• together with directory structure it is very similar to Object Oriented Programming (OOP) but differ in the following - In WWW Hyperspace there are not space (longevity), processes and time
• Object/images (WWW) v.v. processes/procedures (OOP)
• access/search v.v. processing
• links v.v. events/time
• HTML/WWW technologies will be the base for the next step in development Intelligence Assistance Tools

2.6.1. Internet/WWW is a close analogue to natural information (and prospectively - knowledge) storage in the brain - very similar mechanisms of information access and search

the network and independently from the form of information. The wonderful feature of the web technology is the possibility to realise via it's directory and hyperlink structure the model of information and knowledge presentation in the brain - "The word (information) is it's search" (Lev Vygotsky, Russian Psychologist).

• Information location is defined by address but not physical location
• Information search is defined by it's name or definition (name + location or Internet address) - "The word (information) is it's search" (Lev Vygotsky, Russian Psychologist).
• Multimedia - text, graphics, animation, video, audio
• Hyperlink by word, text, graphics, links
• Knowledge Networks - move from information processing to information and knowledge search and access

2.6.2. Modern ITs are becoming intellectual/research work assistive tools

• Automating/increasing number of interactive computer based experiments
• Information search
• Communications on-line

3. Thinking/Thought development and forming consciousness of the modern man

3.1. What is the sufficient difference between though images and notions/concepts of Antique philosophers (Gnostics, Hermetics, etc.) and our contemporary philosophers?

• They have not powerful research and investigation tools and theories
• The main Object of investigation - Mind
• The main instrument of though - QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
• Asking/Defining the question is it's search
• closed knowledge theory which are undivided component of the real world
• man with clear karma/soul, asking the question attempts to access Global Knowledge consisting the answer
• How did the questions asked differ in Antique times? - How to compare mentality?

3.2. What is the destination of the Man whose main doing across the Mankind History is Changing World for Knowledge Acquisition and Integration

• How can we review the Mankind History from the point of view of Knowledge Acquisition?

Is there something what didn't do for knowledge acquisition and integration of intelligent activity?

• The idea could be fruitful if we will assume that mankind is going to his Perfection and technologies (in contrary to mental and spiritual teaching) are only means for involving wider masses in this process.
• This allow to understand why the mankind is on the eve of Information Age
• About next formation it was possible to speak about industry transforming Nature (external), BUT now with entering into Information Age and surviving the very man's thinking (and mentality) changes and increasing knowledge acquisition, we can consider about the consciousness and thought transformation, global acquisition of knowledge and integration of mankind (by means of information infrastructure), etc.

• Noosphere Conception by Vernadsky
• Mankind moves to nature transformation and building active thinking/intellectual layer

3.3. Historical Milestones - From the point of view of Information Age

• 50000 years ago - primitive man started to speak and conceive discrete picture of the world operating with primitive concepts and images
• 5000 years ago - written language appeared giving first opportunity for acquiring knowledge in the form combining text and pictures
• 500 years ago - book-printing invented; great opportunity for knowledge acquisition and dissemination, involvement of many people into research and education
• 50 years ago - computer and communications give new possibility and tools for multimedia data acquisition, dissemination, processing and messages exchange
• 5 years ago - WWW was invented as hypermedia information presentation: information acquisition, processing, access and search in Global Information Environment
• now 1997 - Knowledge Network combining storage, search, access of information regardless of it's form and location

• Language is a though itself. It plays the role of discrete linkage of the images, notions and concepts
• The more intelligent subject (entity) the more discrete notions/objects he/it can operate
• So, inanimate nature can not operate with discrete images - it can reflect only external world as a whole
• Verbal language became the first media for knowledge acquisition ("multimedia" because of use common media for representing different kind of real object)
• The language itself carry the origin of it's origination - it is structured, context dependent

• Pencil and Paper - universal tools for representing all information and knowledge

NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES go in direction of approaching thought process - man is looking for the tools for enhancing and assisting his thought activity

KNOWLEDGE NETWORK

• Knowledge Network = Network Infrastructure + Information + Directory Service & Search -> Knowledge composition
• New technology is at the beginning developed on old technologies
• Knowledge is very context sensitive/intensive

3.4. Feedback principle as facilitator of knowledge and consciousness development

• Feedback is characterised by casualty relations and time of reaction
• The more quick feedback - the more sensitive phenomenon, the more real perception of the phenomenon, process, law/rule
• Slow feedback reaction can be referred to ecology, religion
• Only last century long-time ecological impact of human activity became understand as natural/physical
• Moral (Karmic) reaction of the Universe could be understand not as Divine but Natural/Cosmic
• It is simply to imagine that any violation of Moral principles (by individuals, organisations, states, peoples) were punished after some interval of time
• The crash of the bearer of wrong moral have been succeeded with a time by simple death, termination or more humane successor
• Modern Computers and IT allows to make a lot of experiments during a short period of time
• including non-technical (historical) computer assistive researches - searching and browsing information, statistics processing, results presentation
• IT and assistive technologies develop intelligence, it's ability to store, structurise and master more information as well as operate with more voluminous thought experiments
• Consequently, abstract thinking is developed/organised at higher level - knowledge (information or structured) level

4. KNOWLEDGE and CONSCIOUSNESS

KNOWLEDGE - Classical definition

Knowledge is a authentic information about real world.

Knowledge is a structured classified information stored in different presentation forms

• includes processing and relations rules
• rules for establishing relational links between knowledge/information blocks
• acknowledged by experience and activated by consciousness
• Using/introducing the intellectual individual into knowledge definition we have to suppose existence of Global Mind/Consciousness (See Grigory Skovoroda)

• Consciousness is formed on the base of knowledge and by forming links to real world including self-identification and self- extraction (-separation) from the world (not only physical that is given us in our sensations
• Knowledge acknowledged by practice which constitutes the frame work for perception of the environment world

• According to the teaching of Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit paleontologist, envisioned the convergence of humans in a single massive "noosphere" or "mind sphere"

4.2. Changes in thought and consciousness of the Man

• Criterias
• Ability to operate with abstract images and notions
• The volume of operative information used for thinking (together with assistive tools - Knowledge Network)
• Basic volume of knowledge about surrounding world
• Methodologies and tools of solving tasks and information processing
• Assistive tools and information presentation
• writing language + pencil and paper
• books + logic and mathematics
• computers + multimedia
• network + World Wide Web
• sensors + ????

4.3. Changes in meaning of knowledge and consciousness (in the Age of automated information processing and knowledge reproducing)

• The Level of abstraction is increased - what was recently research is now automated
• We are entering in the Age of dynamic knowledge where all earlier laws
• Nothing will stay unchanged as Information, consciousness, Moral and Ethic converge
• Even Testament's Commandments could be changed
• Lasarev in his "Diagnostics of Karma" undertake the revision of priority of Commandments giving them (or relying) objective evidence (in the INKARM)
• Knowledge and knowledge networks are developed in the direction and by means of knowledge integration acquired by humankind providing common access to the Global knowledge network/warehouse
• WWW Technology is actually the most efficient approach and solution for global knowledge integration and access, it provides
• common system of information access and search
• moving to the natural organisation of access and search by representing URL in generalised form of knowledge network - search-description-definition--name
• according to Leo Vygotsky, Russian Psychologist: "The word (information) is it's search"
• The work of IETF in internationalisation of Domain Names for used different languages

5. Information Age and the beginning of the Integral Philosophy (Philosophy of Information Age)

5.1. Philosophers- harbingers of the Information Age (and man entering/upping on the high layers of consciousness - changes of man's mentality)

• Sri Aurobindo - Founder of the Integral Yoga (European Educated Indus who return to Yoga Traditions)
• Forming new man generation - Man Entering into information layer
• Transformation of Human mentality
• Supramental thinking (travelling)
• Silence of Mind
• Vladimir Vernadsky
• The Concept of Noosphere - the layer created by intellectual activity of humankind
• The Noosphere will be a next stage in growing humankind to the global force in transforming nature and liberate/release the world power
• Pierre Teillhard De Chardin, the Jesuit palaeontologist and mystic
• A half century ago envisioned the convergence of humans in a single massive "noosphere" or "mind sphere" (Ionian Greek "noos" = mind).
• This giant mental network would surround earth to control the planet's resources and shepherd a world unified by Love
• The spherical shape of the earth combined with exponential growth of populations and proliferation of communication -- including "those astonishing electronic machines (the starting point and hope of the young science of cybernetics) would lead to the convergence of previously diverging cultures.
• He argued that global consciousness would precipitate creative unions which would intensify and focus individuality and diversity
• Pre-supposition in works of medieval mystics - Grigory Skovoroda - Ukrainian Philosopher of XVIII Century
• "All world consist of two essence - visible and non-visible. Visible essence is a being/creature but invisible is God". This invisible essence fills the whole space and every visible creature and existed always.
• In different time The God was named by Ancient as Worldwide Mind or Nature, Being, Eternity, Time, Fate, Fortune, Essensiality, etc. Christians named God as Spirit, Father, Tsar, Mind, True, Lord, etc..
• Intuitive development of the Philosophy of Karma by Sergey Lasarev, St. Petersburg
• Change Divine Predetermination of the Moral Order by idea of the Global Cosmic Moral Way/Order
• Present and Future existence is a moral requital/recompense for made/completed doings

• Man is doing both in the real world and the world of knowledge that influence/determine as a whole on concrete man's behaviour
• Moral and Spiritual imperatives are representation/reflection of INKARM's reality ruling/influencing our life
• Firstly, these commandment were given for people in New Testament by Jesus Christ
• at the time when humankind approached in it's consciousness development to the possibility impact on IKARM - higher layer of nature /world activity
• Knowledge becomes not only "accessory" of man's brain but already refer to external (assistive) sources, warehouses, storage, knowledge network

5.2. Religion as a (moral) conception of incognizable (unknowable) part of real world

• Religion establishing moral principles idolised and absolutised physical incognizable (unknowable) world that can not be changed (or feedbacked) by man
• Many moral principles are explained (by Jesus Christ) via parable with physical analogies
• Как аукнется, так и откликнется
• Лбом стену не пробьешь
• Слово не воробей - вылетит, не поймаешь
• Before disclosing physical laws their consequences are conceived as Divine (and Moral)
• Let consider Karmic interpretation of moral and spirituality as reflection of "physical" laws working in IKARM World among and between Information- Spiritual objects/essences/substances - INSOSes, where we can not yet consciously understand and act

• What is the place of knowledge in this theory?
• Does our any knowledge exit out of the boundaries of the real world (including IKARM) - and did it before?
• It must exist as (global) essence or consciousness and before it's disclosure by man
• America existed before Columbus have discovered it. He discovered it for people - gave the knowledge

5.3. How can we define the role of Man in the Information Age?

• Knowledge Acquisition and Integration
• Creating Common Information space for knowledge integration and forming Global consciousness
• Religion's role can be defined as for defence and direction ethical and moral principles of people activity and living
• providing the rules of INKARM world via Commandments
• Extending empirical base of knowledge and forming/developing by this way the depth/level of consciousness
• Consciousness is knowledge proved by empiricism
• Building the Pyramid of Knowledge forming and dissemination
• Only in this Pyramid, Humankind can change itself and enter in new Society of Supramentality

6. Introducing INKARM Concept

INKARM is an information-karmic world. Its main features are:

• Time is one of equal dimensions in the INKARM spanable in the same way as 3D in our phisical world, i.e. INKARM joins past-current-future
• One more dimension in INKARM is information-bounded-with-material-world or simple information in its new extended meaning.

Note. Inportant note that information is independent on time; however information processing depends on time and energy in given limitation of memory/mass and energy/power
• Future development of human beeing will/may lead to appearance of new sensating that will be actually thought-sensation and will enable humans enter/travel INKARM

• IDOSes are interacting entities in INKARM (material objects, conscious subject, thoughts, information objects, etc.)
• IDOS is defined as very close to karmic entities because of their inclussion of time span history of past-current-future
• Conscious human is only IDOS capable to act and transform environment in INKARM by means of consciousness
• Way of humanity development is to act in INKARM in full accordance to its rules and laws which also include spiritual/moral features
• Q. Whether it's necessary to reach complete stability in the 3D-T-E-M world to become stable acting entity in INKARM?

INKARM formulation was result of search for the model of our extended reality that incorporate time-independance feature for all entities represented in our world.