Marco Bettoni: Foundations of
Constructivism next
Autopoiesis
- a phenomenon is an experience (not independent from us)
- scientific explanation: proposition of a generative mechanism
for a phenomenon (e.g. cognition)
- generative mechanism: a mechanism that gives rise to the
phenomena that one wants to explain
- explanation: abstractions of the experiential coherence of the
observer
- if I do not take the observer for granted then I can ask:
"How comes that I can do whatever I can do ?"
- all that the organism does (behavior) is to perform
sensory/effector correlations which are not determined by "instructions" from
the medium (operationally closed systems)
- the product of the functioning of the components is the same
functioning organization that produces them