Metacrisis Archives - Scybernethics

Scybernethics: Blueprints for Collective Autonomy and Digital Democracy

soto² — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:14:44 +0000

(Elaborated with the help of a LLM) Watt centrifugal regulator (“governor”, cf. etymology of “cybernetics”by A-M Ampère, 1843) °°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The assertion that Scybernethics offers the specifications—the design patterns—for the digital tools and reflexive practices necessary for modern society to sustain its collective autonomy against forces of control and cognitive dependency can be explained and …

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Power, Care and Democratic Enaction – A Scybernethics Proposal

soto² — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:39:51 +0000

(Elaborated with the help of a LLM) °°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In the face of today’s multi-scalar crises—social, ecological, epistemic—the urgent call for interdisciplinary dialogue is clearer than ever. The conference “Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy,” (27th-31st May 2026, convened by Mind & Life Europe and hosted by Universitat Pompeu Fabra), signals precisely …

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AI, Enactment, and Democratic Self-Governance

soto² — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 10:09:25 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction The application of new AI technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and machine learning (ML), to strengthen democracy must be carefully scrutinized through the lens of Ezequiel Di Paolo’s enactive philosophy and Barbara Stiegler’s critique of expertocracy, as these thinkers challenge the foundational computational and elitist assumptions often underlying such technologies. Based …

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Your Mind Isn’t What You Think It Is: 4 Revelations from the Frontiers of Cognitive Science

soto² — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:03:54 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> For a long time, the dominant metaphor for the mind has been that of a computer—a complex information processor housed inside the skull, receiving inputs from the senses and producing behavioral outputs. This image of a “brain in a vat” has shaped not only science fiction but also much of our everyday thinking about …

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How to Use AI to Empower Democracy? (ChatGPT answer, POC)

soto² — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:11:49 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Question How can we use PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing) AI / “machine learning” techs to strengthen democratic individual collective intelligence and counter the excessive self-destructive and convergent path (fascism) of global neoliberal capitalism ? ChatGPT answer Great — love this question. I’ll answer in three parts: (A) how the PDP/connectionist paradigm maps onto collective …

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The Art of “Com-putation”: Intuition, Balance, and Second-Order Logic

soto² — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:43:51 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction In our fast-paced world, we’re constantly bombarded with information and decisions. How do we make sense of it all? In scybernethics, we explore this question by diving deep into the heart of what we call “com-putation,” a process that goes far beyond mere calculation. It’s an embodied, intuitive approach to meaning-making that involves …

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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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