Status Updates From The Phenomenon of Life

Kant only exemplifies a long-dominant trend: the idea of the theoretical subject separate from praxis, and more particularly of the passive or receptive nature of "mere" sense and sense knowledge, is deeply ingrained in the philosophical tradition and has decisively determined the course of epistemology.

According to cybernetics, society is a communication network for the transmitting, exchanging, and pooling of information, and it is this that holds it together. No emptier notion of society has ever been propounded. Nothing is said on what the information is about, and why it should be relevant to have it. The scheme allows no room for such a question even to be raised.