A MODEL FOR SOCIAL-INTERACTION BETWEEN COGNITION AND ACTION THROUGH AKEY-WORD SIMULATION OF KNOWLEDGE GROWTH

The question of knowledge construction can be regarded as a question o f cognition in relation to action. Callon and al. have suggested inter active processes mixing both cognitive and social aspects of knowledge or technology. Both actors and interactions can usually be described by texts, and namely, by words. Thus knowledge development can be desc ribed through key-words network development. The authors have made sim ulations for knowledge development according to a local positive feed- back rule within small sets of word associations. In comparison with r eal data, the simulation results are fairly good. This approach leads to a general and very simple interaction model describing knowledge de velopment. In this model, as opposed to usual cybernetics, actors cons tantly change, building a common scenario in relation to a mutual defi nition rule.