cognition Archives - Scybernethics

A Number That a Man May Know and a Man That May Know a Number

soto² — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:39:33 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Introduction Warren McCulloch‘s seminal 1961 essay, “What is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man that He May Know a Number?“, laid the groundwork for what would later be recognized as second-order cybernetics[1]. This profound question continues to resonate within the fields of cognitive science, cybernetics, and philosophy of mind. …

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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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How Technology Shape Meaning: Embodied Cognition and Technological Mediation

soto² — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:20:46 +0000

°°°°~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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Scybernethics: Bridging First and Third-Person Perspectives in Cognitive Science

soto² — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:24:26 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> Lived experience is where we start from and where we all must link back to, like a guiding thread – Varela, 1999. A Dynamic, Iterative, and Self-reflexive Methodology The scybernethics framework offers a unique approach to addressing the epistemological challenges of integrating first-person phenomenological perspectives (1PP) with third-person Cartesian viewpoints (3PP). It does this …

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Overview of the Scybernethics Framework

soto² — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:51:25 +0000

°°°°~x§x-<@> This document synthesizes some core concepts, methodologies, and critiques central to Scybernethics, a framework developed by Christophe Rigon (also known as Soto²). Scybernethics is presented as a personal and philosophical journey that explores cognition, technology, and the nature of understanding itself, integrating elements of cybernetics, enaction, phenomenology, and critical philosophy. It seeks a “second-order …

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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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