Knowledge and Society from the Perspective of the Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Approach

The Unified Theory of Information (UTI) approach conceives information as a threefold dynamic process of cognition, communication, and co-operation. Information-producing systems are self-organizing systems. Applying this idea to society can best be done by conceiving the interactions and dynamics of social systems as mutual production processes of social structures and social practices. All subsystems of society such as economy, polity, culture, art, and science are based on information and self-organization processes. Knowledge is the social manifestation of information. We live in a knowledge society insofar as all social systems are knowledge-generating systems. Modern society today has become knowledgebased because our social systems are increasingly based on technological and scientific knowledge and on mental labour.