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How Technology Shape Meaning: Embodied Cognition and Technological Mediation

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In an age dominated by artificial intelligence, technological mediation, and complex systems, Christophe Rigon’s Scybernethics emerges as a groundbreaking framework that redefines how we understand cognition, memory, and the self. Rooted in second-order cybernetics and the enactive paradigm, Scybernethics offers a participatory, processual approach to knowledge-making, bridging phenomenology, technological hermeneutics, and experimental epistemology. …

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From Computers Which Think to Computers Which Make Me Think: The Tekhnicus Sedimentation

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The notion that computers will one day “think” like humans has long been a driving force behind artificial intelligence research. However, in the realm of scybernethics, we propose a different, more human-centered approach: shifting our focus from computers that think to computers that make us think. This subtle yet profound change in perspective …

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Scybernethics Transduction: Unveiling the Double Cuts in Modern Science and the Digital Age

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction Scybernethics uses the concept of “transduction” to describe the apparent transformation of an epistemological descriptive formalization (form) into a dynamic process and vice versa, bridging gaps between seemingly disparate spacialized and temporal domains. This concept is key to understanding both the historical constitution of modern science and the emergence of the information age, …

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Reframing the Mind-Body Problem: A Meta-Dualist Approach

°°°°~x§x-<@> “There is really not a mind-body problem. There is a mind-mind problem.” – Varela, “God & Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics“, MIT A.I. Lab 1997. Introduction The meta-dualist conceptions of both Scybernethics and Varela’s cybernetic dialectic have significant consequences for how the mind-body problem is understood, ultimately reframing it as a “mind-mind” problem centered …

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Overcoming Dualism (Meta-Dualism): Comparing Scybernethics and Varela’s Cybernetic Dialectic

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction Scybernethics and Varela’s “cybernetic dialectic” (Bitbol 2021) both address conceptual dualities, but they do so with different emphases and methodologies. Scybernethics, developed by Christophe Rigon, is an approach that emphasizes a practical, embodied, and self-transformative method of inquiry, while Varela’s cybernetic dialectic, particularly as expressed in “Not one, not two,” (Varela 1976) is …

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