Theses of Informationalism

Here, I am going to propose some basic theses of Informationalism that I believe can be best expressed by assembling statements that already carry a great deal of historical significance, with some of my own observations.

Term: Information- knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction, etc.; factual data.

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Root Motivation

1. It is in the ability to record, pass on, and understand information that the advanced manipulation of material circumstances becomes possible.

2. The best way to value a species is by its ability to expand and perpetuate the information it acquires over time, because a species that cannot do this must in time be overcome and eliminated by its material circumstances.

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Human Applications

4. Allowing all members of humanity access to the total pool of information acquired by humanity maximizes our ability to generate more information, if humanity accepts Informationalism.

5. Ensuring free distribution and acquisition of Information is the only way to maximize the value of a society. Therefore the goal of a human society must be the freedom of information and the pursuit of it in all fields.

6. Social decisions in an informationalist society should be weighted by their ability to ensure the free distribution and acquisition of Information.

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Civil Rights and Diplomacy

7. "The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man; every citizen can then freely speak, write, and print, subject to responsibility for the abuse of this freedom in the cases is determined by law".

-11th Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (August 1789)

"Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view."

-Woodrow Wilson; Point I (1918)