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Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology
Resilience is a basic trait of cognitive systems and fundamentally connected to their autopoietic organization. It plays a vital role in maintaining the identity of cognitive systems in the face of external threats and perturbances. However, when examining resilience in the context of autopoiesis, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10528217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091247 |
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author | Gahrn-Andersen, Rasmus |
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description | Resilience is a basic trait of cognitive systems and fundamentally connected to their autopoietic organization. It plays a vital role in maintaining the identity of cognitive systems in the face of external threats and perturbances. However, when examining resilience in the context of autopoiesis, an overlooked issue arises: the autopoietic theory formulated by Maturana and Varela (1980) renders traditional Shannon information obsolete, highlighting that information should not be ascribed a role in cognitive systems in a general sense. This paper examines the current situation and suggests a possible way forward by exploring an affordance-based view on information, derived from radical cognitive science, which is exempted from Maturana and Varela’s critique. Specifically, it argues that the impact of social influence on affordance use is crucial when considering how resilience can manifest in informational relations pertaining to the human cognitive ecology. |
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spelling | pubmed-105282172023-09-28 Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology Gahrn-Andersen, Rasmus Entropy (Basel) Article Resilience is a basic trait of cognitive systems and fundamentally connected to their autopoietic organization. It plays a vital role in maintaining the identity of cognitive systems in the face of external threats and perturbances. However, when examining resilience in the context of autopoiesis, an overlooked issue arises: the autopoietic theory formulated by Maturana and Varela (1980) renders traditional Shannon information obsolete, highlighting that information should not be ascribed a role in cognitive systems in a general sense. This paper examines the current situation and suggests a possible way forward by exploring an affordance-based view on information, derived from radical cognitive science, which is exempted from Maturana and Varela’s critique. Specifically, it argues that the impact of social influence on affordance use is crucial when considering how resilience can manifest in informational relations pertaining to the human cognitive ecology. MDPI 2023-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10528217/ /pubmed/37761546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091247 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Gahrn-Andersen, Rasmus Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title | Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title_full | Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title_fullStr | Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title_full_unstemmed | Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title_short | Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology |
title_sort | informational resilience in the human cognitive ecology |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10528217/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37761546 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25091247 |
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