A General World Model with Poiesis: Poppers Three Worlds updated with Software

TL;DR

This paper extends Karl Popper's Three Worlds model by incorporating software as a new subworld, called Poiesis, integrating biological, neurological, and information perspectives into a comprehensive world framework.

Contribution

It introduces a rigorous update to Popper's Three Worlds by adding software as a distinct world, aligning with scientific views of biology and neurology, and expanding the philosophical model.

Findings

Defines software as Poiesis within the world model.

Aligns the extended model with biological and neurological insights.

Provides examples illustrating the new three-tiered world structure.

Abstract

With the famous Three Worlds of Karl Popper as template, the paper rigorously introduces the concept of software to define the counterpart of the physical subworld. Digesting the scientific-technical view of biology and neurology on a high level, results in an updated Three Worlds scheme consistent with an information technical view. Chance and mathematics complete the world model. Some simple examples illustrate the move from Poppers view of the world with physics, psyche and World 3, to a new extended model with physics, extended software (which we call Poiesis), and Geist (the notion which embodies spirit, mind and soul).