The importance of multimedia

Abstract The paper discusses two basic principles derived from results of studies
concerning foundations of micro-theories of knowledge creation; these areMultimedia
Principle and Emergence Principle. Their epistemic, systemic and metaphysical
importance is discussed, together with their relations to the episteme of technology
treated as a separate cultural sphere. A spiral of evolutionary knowledge creation is
presented, in which an extended Falsification Principle plays the role of an objectifying
feedback; this spiral is related to an episteme of Evolutionary Constructive
Objectivism proposed earlier for the coming knowledge civilisation age.
Keywords Micro-theories of knowledge creation - multimedia
principle - emergence principle - episteme of technology - evolutionary
constructive objectivism - theory of truth - metaphysics - evolutionary
knowledge creation

Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki, ME (1960, telecommunications and control engineering),

PhD (1964, nonlinear dynamics in control), DSc (1968, optimization and decision
science), scientific title of Professor (a Central-European and Polish custom) 1976.
Since 1971 worked at diverse roles in management of scientific research, including the
positions of: (1975-78) the Dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of
Technology; (1979–84) the Chairman of Systems and Decision Sciences Program of
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria; (1991–4, elected) a
member of the State Committee for Scientific Research of Republic of Poland and the
chairman of its Commission of Applied Research; (1996–2004) the Director General of
the National Institute of Telecommunications in Poland. In 2004–2007 a research
professor at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi, Ishikawa,
Japan; now research professor at the National Institute of Telecommunications,
Warsaw, Poland. Current interests include vector optimization, multiple criteria and
game theory approaches, diverse aspects of negotiation and decision support,
knowledge engineering, diverse issues of information society and knowledge civilization,
rational theory of intuition, theories of knowledge creation and management,
philosophy of technology in the context of informational revolution.

Yoshiteru Nakamori received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in applied
mathematics and physics, from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1974, 1976, and
1980, respectively. He has served for the Department of Applied Mathematics, Konan
University, Kobe, Japan, as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor from 1981 to
1991, and as a Professor since 1991. In 1984–1985 he stayed at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria where he joined the Regional Water
Policies Project. He joined Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in April
1998 as a professor of the School of Knowledge Science and later (2002–2008) served
as the Dean of this School. Since 2003 he has been the leader of a 21st Century COE
(Center of Excellence) program on theory and practice of technology creation based on
knowledge science. His fields of research interest include identification and
measurement optimization of large-scale complex systems, modeling and control of
environmental systems, and methodology and software of decision support systems.
Recent activities include development of modeling methodology based on hard as well
as soft data, and support systems for soft thinking around hard data. Current topics
include: modeling and simulation for large-scale complex systems, system development
for environmental policy-making support, and systems methodology based on Japanese
intellectual tradition.