Life circle, time and the self in ANTONI KEPINSKIs theory of information metabolism

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Life circle, time and the self in ANTONI
KEPINSKIs theory of information metabolism

• Andrzej Kapusta
• UMCS LUBLIN (POLAND)

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Antoni Kepinski (1918-1972)
Theoretical contexts

• Polish school of psychiatry (Mazurkiewicz,
  Bilikiewicz, Korzeniowski)
• Phenomenological psychology (Scheler, Ingarden,
  Stein)
• Neo-Psychoanalysis and Humanistic Psychology
  (Horney, Fromm, Maslow)
• Ethology and sociobiology (Lorentz, Wilson)

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Possible contexts

• System Theory
• Metabolism Theory (Alvaro Moreno)
• Organism-Environment Theory (Timo Jarviletho)
• Phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty/Dreyfus/W. Freeman)
• Autopoietic organization (Maturana, Varela)

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Environment
Organism
Dialectical exchange of energy and information
(in thermodynamical and psychological terms)
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Membrane /Boundary
Nucleus/Self
Environment/ Culture
Analogies between cell and psyche open systems
entropy rhythms of life
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The STRUCTURE of the phenomenological world

• Self
• Border
• Spatial-temporal order

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Self-pathology

• Disorders of volition
• Discontinuity
• Splitting
• Fragmentation
• Crystallization

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• Border breaking
• Autism (diminuition of the exchange)
• Delusions (fictionalization of the exchange)

• Spatiality and temporality disorder
• Time stopped
• Time storm
• Time discontinuity
• Space disorder
• Proximity of the world
• Self-pulsation

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Rhythm of Life Emotions Waking
Autopoietic organizations is realized as an
autonomous and self maintaining unity through an
independent network of component-producing
processes such that the components, through their
interaction, generate recursively the same
network of processes which produced them. The
product of an autopoietic organization is thus
not different from the organization itself. A
cell produces cell-forming molecules, an organism
keeps renewing its defining organs, a social
group "produces" group -maintaining individuals,
etc. Such autopoietic systems are
organizationally closed and structurally
state-determined..." (M. ZELENY, 1977, p. 13
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• Theory of the Mind in Action
• Energetic-informational material processes
• Behaviour
• Mental operations
• Physical and mental products

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