An Atomized, Cerebral Existence

In Trevelyan Micah's time, the thirty second century according to the Chronology of the Psychotechnic Series, life on Earth is atomized and cerebral. On an interstellar journey:

"Trevelyan had been meditating upon his philosophy." (Starship, pp. 223-224)

So let's hear some thirty second century philosophy. To paraphrase Braganza Diane (The Peregrine, p. 26):

communication is conveyance of information;
information is a spatio-temporal pattern distinguished by rules of selection, therefore capable of being assigned a meaning;
meaning is the induced state of the percipient;
art is primarily emotional communication.

Comment: I suggest that meaning is not a state internal to individuals but essentially shared and interactive.

Trevelyan (The Peregrine, p. 47):

culture is a process;
civilization is not material technology but a thought-process and an understanding.

Comments:

first proposition OK;
civilization is cities dependent on agricultural technology;
civilized thought and understanding depend on technology.