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Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology
1Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)
|September 28, 2023
Summary
This study explores resilience in cognitive systems, proposing an affordance-based information view to overcome limitations of autopoietic theory. It highlights social influence on affordances for cognitive resilience.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Systems Theory
- Philosophy of Information
Background:
- Resilience is key to cognitive system identity against disturbances.
- Autopoietic theory challenges traditional information concepts in cognition.
- Maturana and Varela's autopoiesis critique renders Shannon information obsolete for cognitive systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine the role of information in cognitive resilience within autopoiesis.
- To propose an alternative, affordance-based view of information.
- To investigate the influence of social factors on informational relations and resilience.
Main Methods:
- Conceptual analysis of autopoietic theory and information.
- Exploration of radical cognitive science and affordance theory.
- Argumentation for an affordance-based information model.
Main Results:
- Traditional information theory is incompatible with autopoiesis.
- An affordance-based information framework offers a viable alternative.
- Social influence significantly impacts affordance utilization in cognitive systems.
Conclusions:
- Resilience in cognitive systems requires a nuanced understanding of information.
- Affordance-based information, considering social influence, is crucial for cognitive ecology.
- This approach reconciles autopoiesis with a functional role for information in cognition.
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