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This submission belongs to the session fis. FIS 2010 of the event The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science
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04 Jul, 2010
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Ai-Jin Tian, On "Society Thinks, Therefore Society Is" --Also on logically starting point of social epistemology and social information Science, in Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, Beijing, 21 August–24 August 2010, MDPI: Basel, Switzerland, doi: 10.3390/fis2010-00332
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On "Society Thinks, Therefore Society Is" --Also on logically starting point of social epistemology and social information Science

Ai-Jin Tian 1
1. Ai-Jin Tian, Xin-Ming Zhang, Zong-Rong Li
Abstract
In this paper, we advance and explain a proposition, "society thinks, therefore society is", and believe that the proposition is the logically starting point of the social epistemology and social information science. There is a Hierarchical structure in the world of life. Observing at human individual level: individual thinks with his brain but each of his cells can not think, even a nerve cell; though society consists of individuals, but it can not think because it has not a brain like individual's one. However, from the viewpoint of theoretical informatics, society, person, cell, DNA, and bio-molecule have a common feature, i.e., "input - processing - output" (IPO) of information, then they are all able to think though among them there some difference, i.e., the distinction of the structure and content of their thought. If the Descartes "I think, therefore I am" is the first assumption of individual epistemology in the industrial era, then in the information age, the first assumption of social epistemology and social information science should be "society thinks, therefore society is".
Keywords
Digital Publishing Age: Mosaicking your fragment Information
The measurements and comparisons of media networks