Abstract
the Phenomenon of information in the modern World: A Philosophical Approach This article acknowledges that today, the scientific theory of information remains unclear.However, in the modern world, which is undergoing the transition to a new stage of development, that is, a postindustrial society (Industry 4.0), the phenomenon of information becomes a fundamental category of scientific knowledge and a constitutive feature of a new stage of development.In the context of the latest scientific concepts and experiments, from the philosophical point of view, information can be considered as "some initially assigned givenness" (Nalimov, 1989, p. 229).This approach allows us to assume that it is not information that is the way and means to acquire knowledge, as many researchers believe, but knowledge is the way and means to obtain information which is a fundamental essence of the reality.Almost all serious researchers note that the modern global megasociety is undergoing the transition to a qualitatively different state, which cannot be described with today's universals of the worldview (of a human, world, global evolution of a human, world, society) (Letov, 2009).Different researchers name this qualitatively different state of the society variously: post-industrial society, post-capitalist society, post-economic society, super-industrial society, information society, the society of knowledge, etc.Since the 1960s, the theory of 'post-industrial society' has become the methodological paradigm in social science research on this "different" state of society.The theory of the post-industrial society by Daniel Bell rightfully takes a central place among these theories, since it [the theory] is a theoretical abstraction which allows comprehending the most important trends in the development of the management and the structure of the productive forces, science, and education of advanced Western countries.In the analytical concept of Bell's 'post-industrial society', social changes are presented as a multidimensional process.In this process, the importance of the information sector increases, compared to the production of goods; the role of the information component in production processes is enhanced (compared to raw materials and energy); and social guidelines are revised.Production and exploitation of information and knowledge are the characteristics of the post-