La analogía funcional como estrategia de replicación de la información cultural

  1. José Henrique Pérez-Rodríguez
Journal:
El Genio Maligno: revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1988-3927

Year of publication: 2016

Issue Title: Espejos

Issue: 19

Type: Article

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Abstract

La transmisión de la información cultural en la especie humana presenta una cierta paradoja, pues, sin dejar de depender de un proceso inferencial, se caracteriza por haber alcanzado un relativo grado de fidelidad y, así, experimentado procesos evolutivos de tipo acumulativo. La categorización y el uso de mecanismos de coordinación convencionalizados como medio de homogeneización social de la información explican en parte el relativo éxito de los procesos de inferencia intencional en nuestra especie, pero no dan cuenta de como la información replicada, además de llegar a estar constituida por elementos discretos parecidos a los originales, consigue supuestamente organizarse de manera similar o, por lo menos, de modo funcionalmente equivalente en la mente de cada individuo. Se propone la hipótesis de que en los procesos de transmisión informativa cobraría especial importancia la coordinación de pensamiento entre emisor y receptor con el fin de garantizar la generación de estructuras culturales socialmente convencionalizados. A su vez, se valora la posible participación de este sistema compartido como apoyo a los propios procesos de categorización individuales y se propone un modelo de replicación basado en una restricción selectiva sobre la adquisición individual de información del medio que realiza el receptor.

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