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The book focuses on knowledge as useful and valid information allowing us either to understand the world or to change the world in order to satisfy material and spiritual needs. It provides a thorough treatment of knowledge in all its aspects and applications by machines and humans, free of ideological and philosophical bias and relying exclusively on concepts and principles from the theory of computing and logic. As such, it strikes a balance between popular books skirting fundamental issues and often focusing on the sensational, and scientific/technical or philosophical books that are not accessible to laymen.
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Sifakis, J. (2022). Introduction. In: Understanding and Changing the World. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1932-9_1
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