As máquinas de complexidade: diálogo com Edgar Morin
2019
The presence of the machine as a model of knowledge has gained increasing importance
in contemporary societies, especially because of the amplified use of cognitive machines
that have reconfigured the organization of productive, educational, social, and cultural
activities. Edgar Morin dissects in his work, La methode, the consequences of using
machines for human thought and action, as well as the consequences of this artifice
being our reference for optimal human and societal functioning. An interview with this
author was performed at CNRS-Sorbonne Paris as part of my PhD research, initially
carried out at the University of Grenoble Alpes and concluded at the School of Education
at the University of Sao Paulo. The goal of this interview was to better comprehend, in
complexity theory, the meaning of the machine and, more precisely, of the machine-being,
as well as to confront the hypothesis of my PhD thesis, named Machine Life: the imagery
of machines in Edgar Morin’s La methode. After clarifying the pillars of the concept
machine-being and its peculiarities in regard to the works of Descartes and La Mettrie,
the author discoursed about the importance of imagery in the production of knowledge and
mentioned the unusual images that he attributes to machines, such as Petrouchka. Finally,
Morin emphasizes the notion that human beings are non-trivial machines and must not
be reduced to the determinisms that portray artificial machines (artifices), since most of
human production occurs through creative and self-organized processes
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