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Christophe Rigon / Soto² 🪸 - Scybernethician Profile picture
Christophe Rigon / Soto² 🪸 - Scybernethician
@ki_cog
Cognition/Modeling, 2d cybernetics & enaction, techno-hermeneutics, epistemic & creative cognition, self-design & lived bio-logic. Meaning & sense making.
Dec 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
[ Distinction²: Scientific Normative Explanation is NOT Heuristic Understanding ]

The explanation/understanding conceptual dipole, as all c-dipoles, is *asymetrical* for the scientific observer-actor (phenomenological hysteresis process).

1/3 The normativity of a description is toward the general and uninformed public, so called "lay man", while the heuristic is toward informed peers only for stimulating meaning-making and creativity and which are aware of the complex context and subtle meaning conveyed.

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Dec 19 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
[ Scientific Explanation & Machines: the Technicality of Language ] 🧵

A strict "scientific explanation", as (first order/classical) logically canonical reason could be understand as a *normative linguistic machine*, trying to drive the reader/auditor from a common point of view Image to a shift in his understanding, and so perception. It is a linear linguistic expression grounded on past causes or teleological future to be intelligible in common.
Dec 18 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
[ Scybernethics as a Sub-Linguistic Journey ]

In my "brain" (conceptual map), I have an enacted category named "Conceptualization as negation of a whole". This "whole" is the linguistic phenomenological/cognitive domain.

This seems in phase with the Buddhist "Apoha theory". "A top-down approach uses the tools of logic, such as negation operators, to work from linguistic meaning and the generality of concepts down to real particulars, which lack any generality or shared natures, while avoiding any commitment to real universals."
- Evan Thompson. Image
Dec 16 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
[ Scybernethics & Tekhne: Simondon, Relational Realism and the Limit of Formalism/Ontology ] 🧵🪡

After being driven by the enactive framework, I have converged (through Stiegler) toward Simondon. But his technical, and so transjective conception confusing the 1PP and the 3PP, seems to lead to a relational realism ground I have de-constructed in my enactive 1P-{1P-3P} "toward a meshwork of groundless grounds" polarized (self)understanding.

His conception is clearly useful to better understand the/our technicity (a current blind spot of Science),
Dec 15 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
[ Scybernethics: Conceptualization ] 🧵🪡

In my scybernethics enacted approach (enacted representation AND methodology), PDP/ANN models where the inspiration (Cf. 3 👇) of how to think in a parallel and distributed way the emergent bottom-up inductive, but also creative, Image embodied dynamics of conceptualization (generality).

It was crossed, through suspension of judgement leading to their semantical embodiement (and not only abstract intellection), with the top-down and normative scientific cultural representation and its key differentials,
Dec 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
[ The "New" Sophistry ]

A short critique of the more and more generalized confusing and blurring technoscientific mentality, as an excessive empirical polarization of the scientific episteme, leading to a dangerous rhetorical, normative & operational/instrumental *sophistry*. Aristotle, wake up, they have gone mad (again), but this time because you succeed too much with your normative "excluded third", confusing institutional collective deontology and private ethics. And Descartes was a *philosopher*, not a scientist:
Dec 13 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
[ Let's Be Clear / Kick the Tires... ] 🧵💉

"Bacteria, body cells, slime molds, plants, and even molecular networks can learn and solve problems"

While I appreciate the clarifying intent and the direction toward understanding biocognition... First of all, "intelligence" is a confusing transjective technical polarized term (as opposed to the clear scientific analytical episteme, cf. AI). "Cognition" seems to me more traditional and scientifically neutral.
Dec 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
[ The Rational Scientific Priority of Theory over Facts ]

As everything observed is observed by an observer, any "fact" is implicitly & already a theory. Theories and paradigms are attentional grids which shape *the domain* of the observable,

1/2 and so of the experimentable, of the observed and tested "facts". This doesn't deny the empirical induction, but re-situate and relativize it locally, as facts acquires their meaning in the context of a theory.

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Dec 11 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
[ Scybernethics & Autonomy²: History of Self Transformation ]

The history of life can be seen as the history of self-constitution, as the enaction of a "self". In this regard, human beings are the state of the living art, being able to define what it mean to "be human" and

1/3 Image to be conscious of it.

There is no "Science of Consciousness" without an historical and developmental (time dimenTionality) science of the self.

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Dec 7 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
[ The Two Epistemological Technoscientific Ambiguities Leading to the Actual Confusion ]

This political ambiguity should be put in regard with two others, but epistemological this time:

1/4 1. The transjective ambiguity of Technics leading to the generalized technological confusion between object and subject, between models and conventional reality; Technics being processual and implicit/experiential, and so a blind spot of formal and normative classical science.2/4
Nov 29 • 23 tweets • 3 min read
[ Technoscience & Self-Shifting: from Abstractive Civilizational Drift to Embodied Enactive Rationality² ] 🧵🪡

A key insight of my journey in Scyberethics is that technologies, if used passively & without deeply and actively understanding them, don't extend us, *they shift us* by disembodying and deterritorializing us (heimatlosigkeit), to an extreme point which is no more compatible with the vitally needed homeostatic regulation of life which has a bandwidth logic (meta-stability).
Nov 21 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
[ The Two Forms of Transcendence (in one) ]

For me the human condition needs two forms of transcendence (or "transcendence in immanence"): the first one can be called the conventional or public one, in phase with our common sense (natural attitude) corresponding to our objective Image immersion in what is not our present ego: objects, others, society and history. The second one, the spiritual, is a more private path and correspond to a more complex endeavor harmonizing the first one, recognizing its collective validity, with self-knowledge,
Nov 18 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
[ Cybernetics, Enaction & the End of Functionalism ] 🧵🪸

To understand enactive modeling (as any scientific and rational representation is an evolutionary model experimentally correlated), one need to understand its socio-historical roots in the cybernetics functionalist style Image , and how this functionalist cognitivist style has been "metabolized and digested" comprehensively into the embodied enactive style of thinking:

👉 [ What WAS Cybernetics ]

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Nov 9 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
[ Understanding the Connectionist ("genAI") Epistemological Disruption ] 🧵 🪡

I will quickly articulate some key rationals in this thread to explain the disruptive role of "generative AI" & their unexpected success, which is also at the foundation of my "scybernethics". Image In a nutshell:

connectionist modeling is a de-construction of one pillar of traditional natural & cognitive science: functionalism.
Nov 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Thanks to Hui's "Machine and Sovereignty", I begin to have a more deep understanding of Hegel's dialectic and phenomenology, and see many resonances with my scybernethics journey (outside naïve projections).

Ex, in §5. "Individuation of the Spirit as historical Process"

1/3 Image 1. Technologies as sensorimotor externalizations.
2. Computers as quasi second-order machines (machine², i.e. machines simulating machines and machining us).

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Oct 25 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
[ Politics of Modeling: Why I don't like PP-FEP ] 🧵

As an enactive thinker (more than "enactivist"), my problem with PP-FEP is political: the politics of modeling / style of thinking in science of cognition. For me it is too much on the empirical side, a pure product of the actual dominant utilitarianist scientific trend. It's probabilist foundation ("Bayesian inference"), and locally global conception, while "efficient",
Oct 6 • 32 tweets • 4 min read
[ Relating Tekhne and Episteme (Enacted Biocognition) through Implicit Processual Memory ] 🧵🪡

Understanding technicity/Tekhne imply to understand modern technologies as the production of machines *externalizing and concretizing our normative, first body then mind, gestures*. Soul Leaving Body - William Blake. This understanding allows us to shed light on the nature of technical artifacts, notably automatic computing machines, and their power to shape our embodied minds, but also to highlight certain crucial keys to better understanding ourselves and extending our self-knowledge.
Sep 21 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
[ The Quality of Numbers ]

When I began my spiritual journey at the age of seventeen (1982), having been confronted with the idea of ​​death, the first books I read were "The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times" by René Guénon and "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" by Suzuki.
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Image Then I began to be interested in the symbolism of numbers, that is, numbers not as quantities but as *qualities*: one as unity, two as duality, three as trinity, etc. (I recently discovered that Pierce also followed this path), and also in heraldry and symbolism in general. Image
Sep 20 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
[ Mechanical Computation & Abstract Weaving: Old Story ] 🧵🪡

Walking in the south of France (Pézenas), I was surprised, while visiting an old private mansion with medieval architecture intended to promote the arts and crafts, to find myself in front of a Jacquard loom (1801). Image The correspondence with the "computer" is obvious:

1. Use of "binary" punch cards to automate a complex task, like the first electronic computers: hole/no hole = 1/0 (Boolean binary logic).
Sep 17 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
[ Don't Fall into the Cognitivist Relational Realism Trap ] 🧵🪡

There is now many very good philosophical argumentations against the substancialist metaphysic of Being (cf. image 👇, cited by Vervaeke). Image But because they are caught in a linguistic cognitivist and formalist expressions (declarative knowledge coupled with propositional logic), they tend to fall into an opposite "Relational Realism" trap by searching for an "ontological" ultimate ground.
Sep 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
[ What is "Reality"? ]

A techno-socio collective historical norm? A personal phenomenological experience? Both? Neither?

Exploring: What is this space between and around the logical and distinctive "it is" and "it is not"?

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