I wanted to progressively build a perspective of the world where I always distinguish what I can speak about with some degree of certainty from what I do not know. Our goal must be to push the boundaries of knowledge as far as possible while being aware of our weaknesses.

I believe it is dangerous for our societies to become alienated from scientific and technical knowledge. We must equip them to at least judge their importance and the implications of their application. I hate moralizing and vagueness. I think even ethical problems have a technical dimension that we must understand in order to live better, naturally having first identified the epistemological limits of such an approach.

Scientific and technical progress is useless and even dangerous for societies that are unworthy of managing and directing them. And the most perfect legal system is ineffective without free compliance with ethical rules. The lack of spiritual values is not compensated for by material goods.

The decline of societies can be understood as a weakening of the structures and institutions that allow for the formation of a stable value system of common acceptance and ensure the effective and safe circulation of information and knowledge.

Just as an airplane is not a bird, a computer is not the human mind. I find it difficult to imagine how creations can surpass the intelligence of their creators. However, it may be possible to tame and subjugate it, and that is a terrifying scenario I would not want to even imagine.

It was my desire and responsibility to write about the importance of knowledge as an immaterial entity, distinct from physical entities, and the need to understand the processes of its development and application. To show how new concepts and models from Computer Science help us delve into the workings of individual and collective consciousness.

How all kinds of structures that compose our societies define, above all, informational systems, whose smooth operation depends on the unobstructed and timely exchange of reliable knowledge. I hope this work is the beginning of the reader's initiation into the concept of knowledge, its multiple forms, and uses.

To equip them to see the world through the epistemological lens, the guideline to act correctly as individuals and citizens.

J.S.