Investigaciones educativas en el Doctorado en Educación con visión al bicentenario del Perú

El libro sintetiza el trabajo realizado en el Doctorado en Educación de la Escuela de posgrado de la Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener en las diversas asignaturas de la malla curricular, como producto académico de la investigación formativa, las mismas que direccionan aportes significativos en las áreas de Educación, Currículo, Innovación y calidad educativa con visión al bicentenario del Perú. Presenta artículos que evidencian propuestas de investigación frente a problemas de actualidad en el ámbito educativo, y que servirán para que los estudiantes de posgrado puedan plantear nuevas propuestas desde su formación académica en los diferentes cursos que forman la malla curricular de su formación académica con la mira de consolidar sus habilidades investigativas, la innovación, creatividad y atendiendo con alternativas de solución a los problemas educativos y sociales, mediante el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico en los futuros doctores.

Gestión del tiempo y compromiso académico en estudiantes de psicología

La investigación tuvo como finalidad conocer la relación entre la gestión del tiempo y el compromiso académico en estudiantes de psicología de la universidad privada norbert wiener. El estudio se ajusta a los lineamientos del método cuantitativo. El tipo de investigación es correlacional y descriptivo, adaptado al planteamiento no experimental y corte transversal. Para la recopilación de la información se utilizó la escala de comportamiento de gestión del tiempo y la escala de compromiso académico. En el estudio participaron voluntariamente 157 mujeres y 52 hombres. Los resultados revelan que la gestión del tiempo y el compromiso académico se correlacionan de manera positiva y estadísticamente significativa (rs = .304, p = 001), como también el vigor (rs = .378, p = 001) y absorción (rs = .286, p = 001), aunque el tamaño del efecto es mínimo. Asimismo, se evidenció que no existe correlación con la dedicación (rs = .109, p = 117). Finalmente, los estudiantes de psicología evidencian niveles moderados de gestión del tiempo (52%) y compromiso académico (55%).

Vida, conciencia e individuo en SOMA: un análisis desde la cibernética

SOMA es un videojuego de survival horror ambientado en un siglo XXII distópico en el cual la vida en la tierra está extinguida a causa del impacto de un cometa. Nuestro protagonista es un humano cuya conciencia ha sido transferida a un cuerpo robótico que buscará poner en órbita una cápsula de realidad virtual habitada por las mentes más distinguidas del planeta con la esperanza de que en el futuro reconstruyan a la humanidad. Con esta premisa el videojuego explora profunda y críticamente diversos conceptos y supuestos teóricos de la cibernética, ciencia pergeñada por Norbert Wiener en su libro Cibernética y sociedad. En este artículo exploraremos los conceptos cibernéticos, sus implicancias éticas y su funcionamiento ficcional en el entorno del juego, que actualiza los debates iniciados por él hace más de 70 años.

Coined with Intent

Although most deliberately coined neologisms disappear without a trace, some durable words have been coined with intent. Linguists call them de novo terms. Such neologisms are typically created by combining existing words and clauses, adding prefixes and suffixes, and adapting terms borrowed from other languages (as when Thomas Huxley turned to Greek for agnostic, Richard Dawkins for meme, and Norbert Wiener for cybernetics). An elite group of neologizers don’t just tap existing terminology to produce new words, they create them from scratch. The results, notable for their scarcity, can be thought of as scratch words. In addition to recoining the chemical term bromide to refer to soporific pronouncements, humorist Gelett Burgess cut blurb and goop from whole cloth. Playwright George S. Kaufman did the same thing when coining widget. Any number of brand names, such as Kodak and nylon were also created from scratch.

The Cybernetic Prediction

This chapter explores the often overlooked area of cybernetic prediction, a form of prediction conceptualized by the ‘father’ of cybernetics, the US mathematician Norbert Wiener, during the 1940s–1960s. Although critical interest in the cultural and political histories of cybernetics is growing, the notion of scientific prediction, which is central to cybernetic control, is insufficiently examined. This chapter argues that this form of prediction is not a mere technical cog in the epistemology of the future, but a complex concept. It demonstrates that Wiener’s epistemology of cybernetic prediction emphasizes the role of uncertainty and does not replace materiality with information. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the useful lessons offered by Wiener’s concept of cybernetic prediction for future-oriented practices within the broader fields of contemporary science, governance, and politics.

Good and bad luck of a computer project

A computer project in the world and in Russia is now usually viewed as an economic, technological or military one. At the same time, it is a global social project. From the theory of the humanitarian and technological revolution, it follows that at the current point of bifurcation, its results can determine the path of humanity to the future. I show that the results of this project reflect the readiness of civilizations for socio-technological change. The COVID-19 pandemic turned out to be a test for social imperatives and had a huge impact on computer reality in the formation of a new sociality. Book by K. Schwab, T. Mallerert “COVID-19: The great reset” represents a variant of such sociality. The analysis presented in this work shows the unacceptability of the proposed changes for the world of Russia. A study of large-scale computer projects in Russia and Belarus shows the need to bring them to a new sociocultural level, much higher than the current one. The unsuccessful experience of mass e-education in the Union State confirmed the imperative of Norbert Wiener: “Render unto man the things which are man’s and unto the computer the things which are the computer’s”. This should, apparently, be a reasonable line of behavior in organizing joint actions of people and machines.

Das Bewußtsein der Maschinen

When Günther's book first appeared in 1957, cybernetics was considered the universal science of the future. It had been discovered that basically vacuum cleaners and states work according to the same principles. Günther was not only a philosopher, versed in German Idealism and logic, but also a fan of science fiction literature. This enabled him to fully grasp the importance of this new way of thinking, with Norbert Wiener as its foremost proponent. The book "Das Bewußtsein der Maschinen" (The Consciousness of Machines) is probably the first philosophical work in the wake of Wiener's fundamental texts to locate and interpret cybernetics in the widest possible context of Western metaphysics. For Günther – as, incidentally, for his antipode Martin Heidegger – it was clear that cybernetics was destined to eventually change humanity. Unlike Heidegger, however, Günther enthusiastically welcomed this change, though he was cautious about the possibility of self-aware machines. Since this prognosis of a profoundly universal technological revolution, brought about especially by the computer, has been confirmed, and because, moreover, an even more far-reaching change of the world by robots is already underway, a new look at Günther's work may remind us of a discussion whose significance we can perhaps only now adequately assess.