Cybernetics: the bridge between divided knowledge and transdisciplinarity

Abstract

Discusses a hyperspecialization in science, with axiological tendencies that put science higher than art or the myths. Considers that from a cybernetic point of view science as well as art or even myths are the creations of the human mind via an informational process. In the search for a complete axiomization, science has reached a limit where even in arithmetic there are said to be some undecidable affirmations. Argues that it should seem normal to accept a transdisciplinary point of view that would entail a global approach which would allow the sciences to communicate with art, poetry and inner experience, all through the cybernetic process. Discusses the First World Congress on Transdisciplinarity, held in 1994 in Portugal, and the adoption of a Charter of Transdisciplinarity.

Citation

Nicolau, E. (1995), "Cybernetics: the bridge between divided knowledge and transdisciplinarity", Kybernetes, Vol. 24 No. 7, pp. 21-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929510095649