On the navigation of uncertainties: Chaos, entropy, and technological singularity

Abstract

Chaos and entropy are critical concepts for understanding our contemporaneity. Instead of the necessity and pre-stabilised harmony of the cosmos and the world, on which classical and modern metaphysics still rest, everything «collapses», becomes «curved», and evaporates in «black holes»; only event horizons remain from an astrophysical point of view.

The assessment of the risk of action corresponds to contemporary philosophical theories of probabilism, which have become scientifically binding and indelible in the media. Probability became the basic word for the expectation of the coming future as a risky event in the meteorological discourse of storm and hurricane forecasters, only after which does so-called nice weather follow.

In this article, the author tries to articulate the fundamental assumption that the technosphere as autopoiesis becomes, at the same time, a matrix of new action in the system and environment of human-non-human communication and a model for the possible management of chaos, contingency, and technological singularity as the main concepts of contemporaneity.