Abstract

LEMOS, Renata T. S.; FRANKLIN, Benjamin L.; ALVES, João B. M.  and  KERN, Vinícius M.. Technontology & complexity. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2007, vol.11, pp. 192-203. ISSN 1806-5821.

Abstract This article addresses the interlacement of three emerging phenomena. The first concerns the emergence of an epistemology of complexity, configured by advances in the history of science, which have uncertainty at its core. The second addresses the technological re-ontologizing of reality and the appearance of a technontology mediated through NBIC (Nano Bio Info Cogno). There is a point of convergence between epistemology of complexity and technontology embodied in the perception of an informational unity, both philosophical, scientific and technological, between Multiple Levels of Reality (MLR). Finally, the third is related to the limitations of science and to the new emerging methodological approaches to these phenomena. These new approaches can be observed on the renewal of Interpretivism and the use of Simulation as a transdisciplinary research tool.

Keywords : complexity; levels of reality; ontology; technontology; interpretivism; transdisciplinarity..

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