大数据时代的哲学思维变革

The Changes of Philosophical Thinking in the Era of Big Data

大数据时代已经拉开序幕,露出其初始面孔,这是我们这个生存时代的一种改变,必将会影响人们的哲学思考。但是事情是否真会如一些大数据专家所宣扬的那样,却不一定。大数据会给因果关系带来冲击,使相关关系大放异彩,但是因果关系不会被取代,它依然是我们思考的基础。在大数据时代,数据将具有重要地位,但它依然需要理论,理论不会终结。大数据会产生一个数据或者信息的世界,类似于波普尔的世界3,这个数据世界具有客观性和相对独立性,不过,它的根据依然在物质世界。

The era of big data has arrived, and it will surely affect people’s philosophical thinking. But it is not necessarily true, as some big data experts have said. Big data can have an impact on causality, but causality won’t be replaced. We still need it. In the era of big data, data will play an important role, but we still need theory. Big data will create a world of data that is similar to Popper’s World 3. Although the world of data is objective and independent relatively, it still based on the physical world.