objective knowledge: its degree of permanence

The following quote by Brookes presents a great challenge: “In other words, once human knowledge has been recorded [in World III], it attains a degree of permanence, an objectivity, an accessibility which is denied to the subjective knowledge of individual humans” (Brookes, p. 128). Most intriguing is about this statement is that knowledge, once recorder, attains a degree of permanence, objectiveness, and accessibility. Not quite sure if Brookes meant to say relative permanence, objectivity and accessibility bound by time and space. Otherwise, it would suggest that the recorded knowledge and information have an intrinsic property or characteristics or structures which can be detached and maintained in truly objective manner outside of the situation and the context it was created. If so, understanding these characteristic, structures, properties and manifestation could be the first steps towards the theory of information.

Brookes, B.C. (1980). The foundation of information science. Part I. Philosophical aspects. Journal of Information Science, 2, 125-133