  The historical development has lead to the decay of Natural Philosophy which
until 19th century included all of our knowledge about the physical world into
the growing multitude of specialized sciences. The focus on the in-depth
enquiry disentangled from its broad context lead to the problem of loss of
common world-view and impossibility of communication between specialist
research fields because of different languages they developed in isolation. The
need for a new unifying framework is becoming increasingly apparent with the
information technology enabling and intensifying the communication between
different research fields and knowledge communities. This time, not only
natural sciences, but also all of human knowledge is being integrated in a
global network such as Internet with its diverse knowledge and language
communities. Info-computationalism (ICON) as a synthesis of pancomputationalism
and paninformationalism presents a unifying framework for understanding of
natural phenomena including living beings and their cognition, their ways of
processing information and producing knowledge. Within ICON physical universe
is understood as a network of computational processes on an informational
structure.
