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Christophe Rigon / Soto²
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Scybernethician: 2d cybernetics & enaction, techno-hermeneutics, existential & creative cognition, lived bio-logic. Meaning & sense making. Self-aesthetic & design. Reflexive hermeneutics. Scybernethics.org.
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[ How do we Create Meaning: from Cybernetics to Enaction ]

Embark on a fascinating paradigmatic journey through the evolution of cognitive sciences & technologies in this captivating podcast episode (21 mn): cognitivism -> connectionism -> enaction

📣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OBt...
Excellent and very interesting academic work 👍 (cf. RT)

Rem: Dialectics in practice = Enacted hermeneutical meaningful circulations between dipoles, conceptuals, technicals or socials (cf. my own work).
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
[ Scybernethics as the Invention of Myself ]

Discover how inventing Scybernethics became an ongoing process of self-individuation—melding theory, lived experience & creative cognition.

👉 scybernethics.org/inventing-sc...

#Enaction #Simondon #SelfDesign #Individuation #Scybernethics
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November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
[ Scybernethics for Democratic Empowerment - Series ]

To continue the series "Scybernethics for Democratic Empowerment", here is a 4th episode:

Scybernethics: Blueprints for Collective Autonomy and Digital Democracy:

👉 scybernethics.org/scybernethic...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
[ Power, Care and Democratic Enaction – A Scybernethics Proposal ]

👉 scybernethics.org/power-care-a...

Proposal: Integrating Scybernethics within the Conference Structure

1. Meta-Dialogic Session Opening
2. Dipole-Framing in Group Debate

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( @mindandlifeeu.bsky.social )
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November 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
[ Exploration ]

Lately, I have become increasingly interested in Dzogchen, which has resulted, as is often the case, in a recursive rereading of the fundamentals (two truths for the four schools, etc.), without forgetting that conceptual cognition is necessarily erroneous.
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
[ Buzz Word: Intelligence ]

It is a highly, not scientific but *political* word. Who defines it? Comprehensively? With what purpose?

“People call large language models ‘stochastic parrots,’ ” Thompson said. “But I think it’s insulting to parrots.”

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What Is Intelligence?
What Is Intelligence? At a church in Italy, we sought to shed an old definition for one that could save us.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Transmutation, 2017.
October 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
[ AI, Vulnerability, and Human Relationships ]

LLM-generated summary blog post on the dialogue “Minds, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics,” based on the video sources (see RT):

👉 scybernethics.org/minds-artifi...
October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
[ Vital Point & Evolutionary Crossroad ]

"If we do not have freedom of attention, we cannot have freedom of intention. And then any other form of freedom is either illusory or impossible".

- Peter Hershock, "Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFfO...
Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics - Day 1, Afternoon
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October 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
[ Democracy & Arming the Mind ]

Using AI to strengthen democracy: when Ezequiel Di Paolo (Enaction) meets virtually with Barbara Stiegler (Politics) to reflect on the democratic uses of AI.

👉 scybernethics.org/ai-enactment...
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October 19, 2025 at 7:07 AM
[ Scybernethics Blog WordCloud ]

👉 scybernethics.org/blog/
October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
[ Scybernethics: Modeling Cognition & Self-Understanding ]

👉 scybernethics.org/epistemology...

The epistemology of modeling cognition (like LLMs) is massively overlooked. I propose a theorized & non-reductionist second-order 1P-3P Scybernethics approach, toward *meta-functionalism*.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
[ What is Mind for Modern Science? ]

Hint: much more than just a (simple mechanical) computer.

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1. Your memories aren’t just in your head—they’re in your hands.

2. Your emotions aren’t pre-installed programs—they’re self-organizing weather patterns.

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October 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
[ ❔Key Collective Question ]

How can we use PDP (Parallel Distributed Processing) AI/“machine learning” techs to strengthen democratic individual collective intelligence and counter the excessive self-destructive and convergent path (fascism) of global neoliberal capitalism ?

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[ AI & Ethology: Understanding Animal Communication ]

A very interesting use of "Machine Learning": decoding sentient animal communications based on multi-modal inputs like sounds, movements, environmental data.

Co-Existence, not/more than (behaviorist) Control!

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AI for Non-Human Animal Communication - NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
This workshop will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and bioacoustics, aiming to address challenges in processing complex bioacoustic data and interpreting animal signals in ord...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
[ AI & Ethology: Understanding Animal Communication ]

A very interesting use of "Machine Learning": decoding sentient animal communications based on multi-modal inputs like sounds, movements, environmental data.

Co-Existence, not/more than (behaviorist) Control!

aiforanimalcomms.org
AI for Non-Human Animal Communication - NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
This workshop will explore the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and bioacoustics, aiming to address challenges in processing complex bioacoustic data and interpreting animal signals in ord...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
[ Scybernethics HowTo ]

It's now quick and easy to integrate this one-click downloadable data (see RT👇) into a general, multimodal LLM (like NotebookLM, for example), and then discuss it. A good way to familiarize yourself with a topic before, of course, diving into the sources
September 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
[ Scybernethics Data Repository ]

I created a public Github repository where I try to gather some of the various publications around scybernethics (texts, micro-essays, diagrams, X thread, etc.).

✨Hypomnemata data for the future²:

github.com/cog-data/Scy...

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GitHub - cog-data/Scybernethics: A repository of Scybernethics related files (texts, schemas, etc).
A repository of Scybernethics related files (texts, schemas, etc). - cog-data/Scybernethics
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September 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
[ Must Read Classic (Enaction) ]

"Principles of Biological Autonomy" by Francisco J. Varela

--> a new annotated edition

Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela

Edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and Evan Thompson
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
[ Techno & NooPolitics ]

It is crucial today to have a broad & nuanced informed vision of the AI Industry disruption to try to defend the democratic model against imperial cognitive colonialism, be it states or/and corporates. A new AGI religion?!

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...
August 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
[ Noo/TechnoPolitics: the Hypnocracy (AI) Affair ]

"Hypnocracy is the first regimen that acts directly on consciousness. It doesn't control bodies. It doesn't repress thoughts. Rather, it induces a permanent state of trance. Lucid sleep. A functional trance."

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July 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
[ Organology & Anthropo-Functionalism ]

From Aristotle's "organology" to the critical de-construction of scientific “anthropo-functionalism”.

👉 scybernethics.org/organology-a...

👉 in my X thread: x.com/search?q=fro...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
[ Scybernethics is Here ]

Ready for a coherent second-order enacted rationality², including a (third-party mediator) technological hermeneutics of cognitive modeling (A-cognition)?

👉 scybernethics.org/blog/

or simply persist in a dominant projective anthropo-functionalism and “optimization”...
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Tags Cloud Featured Understanding the 3 major paradigms of cognitive science and technology (founding text by Varela). Latest Posts (newest to oldest) By months
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June 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Reposted by Christophe Rigon / Soto²
Here is our new podcast, The Blind Spot, with yours truly, @adamfrank4.bsky.social and Marcelo Gleiser at Spotify. open.spotify.com/show/5RWMnV4...
The Blind Spot Podcast
Podcast · Adam Frank, Evan Thompson and Marcelo Gleiser. · Every two weeks, a new episode brings an honest and deep conversation about how we unravel the world through science, physics, philosophy, an...
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April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
[ Mind as a Gesture: Toward a Computational Phenomenology of Embodied Cognition ]

"From Phenomenological Motricity to Enactive Cognition: Movement, Sense-Making, and Neural Modeling"

Merleau-Ponty's motor intentionality, affordance & "Deep Learning".

👉 scybernethics.org/from-phenome...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
[ Attention ]

While the academy is loudly debating whether machines are intelligent/conscious (...), some have been using "machine learning" algorithms in back office for many years, analyzing us and laying down the law. But no one cares ("technical")...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3iP...
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May 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM