Epistemology Archives - Scybernethics

AI, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships

soto² — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:40:17 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Executive Summary The content of this article was generated with the help of a LLM (NotebookLM) from the analysis of the videos, so please check the sources for a more accurate analysis. This document synthesizes the core themes, arguments, and conclusions from the Mind & Life Institute’s “Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics” dialogue (10/2025). …

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Epistemology of Modeling, Cognition, and Self-Understanding

soto² — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:14:02 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Abstract: This article discuss the epistemology of modeling and simulations, positioning them not merely as descriptive tools, but as crucial heuristic devices and active epistemological practices central to developing a comprehensive, enacted approach to cognition and self-understanding. This focus is situated within the larger framework of Second-Order Rationality² and the integration of first-person (1P) …

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Organology and Its Critiques: From Aristotle to Stiegler, Hui, and Rigon

soto² — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:00:38 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Abstract This article explores the evolving concept of organology, tracing its philosophical journey from Aristotle’s foundational ideas through Bernard Stiegler’s general organology and Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics, culminating in Christophe Rigon’s scybernethic critique of scientific “anthropo-functionalism.” By examining how each thinker redefines the relationship between biological, technical, and social organs, the article highlights the importance …

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From Phenomenological Motricity to Enactive Cognition: Movement, Sense-Making, and Neural Modeling

soto² — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:29:11 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Abstract This short article synthesizes a philosophical and scientific dialogue bridging phenomenology, ecological psychology, enactive cognitive science, and formal neural modeling with key conceptual articulations. We examine how Merleau-Ponty’s concept of motor intentionality—the pre-reflective, embodied orientation of the subject toward the world—reconfigures the movement/consciousness relation, aligns with Gibson’s affordance theory, and finds computational resonance …

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Exploring Scyberspace: A New Framework for Cognition, Mathematics, and Ethics

soto² — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:17:09 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In this article, we explore the concept of scyberspace, a novel representational framework that integrates first-person and third-person epistemologies to study cognition, meaning-making, and recursive dynamics. Drawing inspiration from diverse fields such as geometry, topology, enactivism, and computational paradigms, scyberspace offers a powerful tool for bridging classical and modern approaches to understanding cognition. …

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Scybernethics and Second-Order Rationality: Transcending the Natural Attitude

soto² — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 10:05:06 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In the evolving landscape of cognitive science, Christophe Rigon’s concept of “second-order rationality” within the framework of scybernethics offers a fresh perspective on cognition and its relationship to the world. This article explores how Rigon’s second-order rationality differs from traditional first-order rationality, while integrating the three key paradigms of cognitive science: cognitivism, connectionism, …

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Toward an Embodied Pharmakological Path

Christophe Rigon — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 09:44:51 +0000

06/10/2023, My synthetic analysis, take / projection of the current global noologic (related to the study of the mind or the way we think) situation. A standpoint. From a thread initially published on my Twitter account, so it is a very condensed expression. “It is an hypomnemata (a techniques of memory whose meaning Foucault analyzed …

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Whence perceptual meaning? A cartography of current ideas – Varela F. J. (1989)

Christophe Rigon — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 10:23:55 +0000

Varela F. J. (1991) Whence perceptual meaning? A cartography of current ideas. In: Varela F. J. & Dupuy J. P. (eds.) Understanding origins: Contemporary ideas on the origin of life, mind and society. Kluwer, Boston: 235–263. Available at https://cepa.info/2074 (free inscription, excellent knowledge base about enaction and alternative approaches to cognition). Also published as a …

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Exploring the Future of Rationality at the Age of ChatGPT

Christophe Rigon — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:44:34 +0000

A conversation with ChatGPT4 about cognitive functionalism, mechanical thinking, the enactive paradigm and their systemic implications both on our world and on our common rationality. “We succeeded, and we failed, for exactly the same reason, namely our mode of rationality.” J. A. Wojciechowski. The deep civilizational roots of functionalism and mechanical thinking Me: “Explain the …

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