Self-Organization: a small review and quick proposal for use

• Autor(a) principal: Cecon, Kleber
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Acta Scientiarum. Human and Social Sciences (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciHumanSocSci/article/view/55191
• topic: Primary self-organization; secondary self-organization; attractors; determinism; autopoiesis.; auto-organização primária; auto-organização secundária; atratores; determinismo; autopoiesis.

Self-organization is a process that has been widely discussed in several areas of study and has been articulated with an increasing number of areas of knowledge. The focus of this article is to carry out a review of the main concepts of self-organization such as primary, secondary self-organization, attractors and forming elements, in addition to other concepts related to these, for example, determinism and autopoiesis. To this end, the views of classic authors on the subject, such as Ashby and Von Foerster, will be quickly reviewed, with special attention to Michael Debrun’s position. A secondary point of this article, which is more concisely disposed at the end of the text, is to reflect on the possibility of applying the concepts of self-organization to studies of scientific practice. When assessing the potential of studying ‘science’ within a self-organizational approach, it is possible to see how it seems to be fruitful and versatile.