KNOWLEDGE (Implicit)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1826 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
The existence of implicit knowledge as a substratum for explicited one has been explored by M. POLANYI (1966).
The establishment of spontaneously organized connections among scattered “bits” of information seems the only way to start to explain how new concepts and theories can appear suddenly in the mind (as testified for example by KEKULE, GAUSS, POINCAR-, VENDRYES and many others).
The most recent experiments with neural networks offer an interesting insight about how this could happen in the brain (M. BODEN, 1991, p. 25 — D. GERNERT, 1994, p.128).
A. KOESTLER concept of bisociation of matrixes could be another way to understand how new explicit knowledge comes into existence.
Genesis of mental and conceptual complexity seems thus to be probably a phenomenon of emergence through combination. As such, it is very significant for systemics.