Philosophy

It is vital in a world that is built and operated on the basis of a tremendous amount of information and knowledge, to ponder on the nature and the workings of that information and knowledge.

In fact, from several points of view:

• From a theoretical point of view
• From an ethical point of view
• From a practical point of view

The question 'what is there to know' is not the most important. I would refer to a useful framework, relating Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom. This collection, I will abbreviate with DIKW for the remainder of everything you read on this website. Knowledge purely for the sake of knowledge can, however interesting, be useless or even hindering for the application and results of Wisdom. The items I define below (as rather common in the field of Knowledge Management (KM):

• Data is defined as a stream or collection of signals.
• Information is defined as data with a meaning, at the least data with metadata.
• Knowledge is the reasoning about information in order to determine useful action or correct understanding.
• Wisdom is the understanding of which are, and the application of, the right actions.

Knowledge can be replaced by Competences, which is the set of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes a person is able to demonstrate.

My goal in this section is to collect, curate and comment on reasoning in the domains of knowledge management, ethics and philosophy for technology. The reason behind that goal is that this connects closely to an - in my view - important endeavour: the continuation and broad access to the knowledge that is useful to continue civilisation. Focus points are items of interest, such as my expertise in energy and economy, in physics and technology, in fusion and nuclear power; but also in topics that I for now solely approach as an amateur, such as language, spirituality and mycology.

the value of words