Исторические корни теорий конструктивизма в кибернетике

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Knyazeva H.

The work substantiates that in the ideas of cybernetics (N. Wiener, W.R. Ashby) and second-order cybernetics (H. von Foerster) one can find the historical origins of constructivism theories, which are very popular in various fields of modern science, including epistemological constructivism, linguistic constructivism and social constructivism. The construction and proliferation of worlds in consciousness, the use of the ability of consciousness to “think as if” (als ob) or “think differently” is the basis for the construction and redesign of the world, its constant creative renewal, and the production of innovations in it. Highly abstract concepts in natural science theories are constructs that do not have direct referents in reality. Epistemological constructivism is concerned with the study of the productive power of human imagination, the use of metaphors to create initial visual images of thought and creative thinking. Speech act theory in linguistics shows how we create reality with words. Social constructivism is, in fact, a method that gives us tools for understanding how people create social phenomena and institutionalize them, turning them into traditions, how social reality is generated and constructed by people.

Keywords: конструктивизм, творчество, creativity, воображение, constructivism, imagination, epistemological constructivism, эпистемологический конструктивизм, multiverse, мультиверс, worlds of consciousness, миры сознания

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Наука, технологии и ценности в неустойчивом мире: сборник научных статей

Русское общество истории и философии науки, 2024.