Diana Lucio-Arias and Loett Leydersdoff presented late last year a paper on the dynamics of scientific texts, using Maturana & Varela's idea of autopoiesis. Scientific publications are coded communications among scientists. An idea is taken, ignored, or rejected. After some time we have a structured set of ideas, which we call scientific knowledge.
Natural language also has rules, besides grammar and syntax, the street chooses, what people say and how they say it. The study of discourse is important for Mathematics Education.
In this paper the authors prove the usefulness of ideas generated in biology to analyze, and eventually understand the evolution of scientific knowledge. Scientific societies are as alive as the unit members that compose them; thus it is not that surprising that the idea of autopoiesis describes and explains a living system, the system of scientific ideas.
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1 comment:
dissertation,
I hope you can use autopoietic concepts to claim your autonomy.
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