The Role of Process Ontology in Cybernetics

Scientific paper - Other

• Author: Sandro Skansi; MBZ: 343196
• Author: Kristina Šekrst
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Croatian Studies; (Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philosophy

Abstract (croatian)

The purpose of this paper is to show the role of process ontology in cybernetics. The philosophical foundations of cybernetics were laid by Norbert Wiener, who used a language full of human-machine metaphors described in terms of information, feedback, and control. We will show that various fields of science still use essentially cybernetic definitions today, which will lead us to a reformulation of such a language from a philosophical point of view: The goal of cybernetics is the study of process analogies. Using the principle of compositionality, we will show how a cyberneticist can easily argue for the ontological sameness of two processes. Such a framework could lead to cybernetics being seen as a fully grounded philosophical theory. As a corollary, we point out that there is a growing need for cybernetics because, thanks to its specific process ontology, it provides a theoretical framework that ontologically bridges dualisms that occur throughout contemporary science.

• Keywords (croatian): cybernetics; process ontology; analogy; principle of compositionality; dualism
• Language: croatian
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Other
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Synthesis philosophica
• Numbering: vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 461-469
• p-ISSN: 0352-7875
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.21464/sp36211
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:111:863112
• Publication: 2021
• Document URL: http://bib.irb.hr/1235595
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2023-03-28 08:20:54