Paradox Of Ignoramus: Bioethics' Symbolism In Planning Urban Space

Abstract

Correspondence between actions of three social technologies is discovered - bioethics, urban planning and knowledge management. The correspondence is discovered on basis of the "paradox of ignoramus". The essence of paradox is the fate of ignoramus guaranteed to everyone in the society of knowledge. The paradox manifests the situation in which each professional becomes an expert in a single area of knowledge while staying helpless as an ignoramus in all the rest areas, but living in modern society requires a special awareness to navigate in a complex reality. These three technologies protect an ignoramus: knowledge management protects the intellectual freedom of specialist; urban planning - the rights of urban communities; bioethics - individuality. On basis of information models, the task of knowledge management in urban planning is specified and a role of verbal symbolism of bioethics in finding the "semiotic attractor" of urban planning was established. This symbolism serves as the fostering of needs and recodes the pragmatics of social egoism into the pragmatist of social altruism. Such change in symbolism's pragmatics causes the positive self-organization of urban community, which is the object of urbanistic theories. The structure of urban space is interpreted as localization of the spectrum of processes each if which is examined in separate trends of urbanism. These processes are interpreted as information processes that allowed one to uncover invariants in urban space, under which conditions of the unacceptable effects of urban planning (equifinality and heterotopy) and the limits of concepts' applicability are manifested.