Uncertainty and the transformation of methodology in the technoscientific field

Technoscience, as a project that is fundamentally methodological, continues the theme of rational constructivism, which originates from the ancient Greek concept of "mimesis" (ppnalg) - a creative act aimed at imitating nature. Its essence lies in a volitional action that conceals the "technical" (isvn) as a means of arriving at an artful, artificial mode of being. However, the fundamental novelty of technoscience lies in its transcendence of the boundaries of mimesis, shifting its foundation from a constructive design to "imitation" as "mimicry" (pipnnapog) - a dissolution and concealment within natural processes themselves. The directed effort of technoscience penetrates the core of natural cycles and is recognized as an immersion into the event of "exchange" (informational, material, molecular, etc.) across various levels of reality, utilizing the instrumental domain of science. Its basis is corrective engineering manipulation, which uncovers new stable forms within molecular, cellular, genetic, informational, social, and other structures. Within this framework, the role of "uncertainty," initially introduced by the synergetic paradigm, becomes more clear and tangible. It by no means coincides with the concept of "chaos" (annihilation, confusion); rather, it reveals the dissolution of established boundaries and connections, residing within the domain of self-organization and exposing a local zone of nature's actions. From the author's perspective, uncertainty, manifesting as a "trading zone" (P. Galison), contains an infinite multitude of ways in which a thing or event discloses itself. In this regard, the level of nanostructures is illustrative, as they can be both particles participating in mechanosynthesis (nanomachines) and interfaces (multilayer nanosystems, zones of local inhomogeneities). Modeling merely determines the combination of constraints in the physical process of creating nanostructures. However, the emphasis is moving towards manipulation practices: the use of quantum nanobots, mechanosynthesis, actuator control, etc. Technoscience, on the one hand, is guided by the methodological synthesis of diverse forms of knowledge. On the other hand, it operates within various levels of (physis), penetrating the event of "exchange" and engineering stability and coordination where none existed before. Thus, the theme of "atomic reductionism" is being supplanted by the methodology of mimicry, which pays homage to the power of uncertainty. This power, while serving as a source of new discoveries across various levels of reality, simultaneously produces a manifold increase in objective unreliability in the reproduction of nanotechnologies (A. Grunwald) The author declares no conflicts of interests.

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