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.Copyright © 2001 by Yevgeniy NIKIFOROV,
Yevgeniy NIKIFOROV,
Senior Researcher with the History Section of the Russian Federation Academy of Sciences
INFORMATION FIELD AND RUSSIAN SOCIETY
At present the information field is ordinarily regarded as a result of societal developments and their interaction with the natural environment, with the information field having formed itself into a mode of organizing and integrating social relations.
However, a more promising approach seems to be that of treating the information field quite differently, when the Internet is regarded, in fact, as a substantially higher, independent and self-sufficient Being, which steps forward in relation to society as a "supreme force" using society as its habitat.
The point is that, both genetically (historically) and functionally, the material being can be represented as a number of different substantial states, when the role of the initiating field is sequentially played by the prebiological, biological, and social substances, with each particular field including the properties of the lower states in a transformed way.
On the other hand, the sum of the lower substances steps forward as the habitat of each of them.
The historical view of the problem in question represents the development of the Being in the form of the sequential emergence of its substantially higher levels. With this in mind, one can extrapolate the logic of the information field's genesis as well as its content and characteristic features - to the extent the humans may be aware of them. As a result, the information field's place in the evolution chain and the time of its estrangement from society as the societal whole can be detected more or less exactly too.
As to the forthcoming reality, as far as Russian society, as part of the general social evolutionary process, is concerned, the fact of the information field acquiring demiurgic functions (in the Platonic sense) with regard to the societal whole should be adequately responded to
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