The understanding
of Human Consciousness is a theme of a worldwide relevance among many
scientists and in different areas of science, given its centrality in the human
world and its implications for all areas of knowledge, being potentially a
generative theme of new paradigms of the understanding of reality.
Thus, it is
with enthusiasm that we announce the foundation of NEDEC2 – Center of Studies
and Development in Knowledge and Consciousness: a Brazilian research
group/team, formed by researchers from Brazil and the United States. Under the
leadership of Prof. Dr. Francisco Antonio Pereira Fialho (engineer,
psychologist and doctor in Knowledge Engineering), the group arose in the
Interdisciplinary Post Graduate Program in Engineering and Knowledge Management
of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
The main
idea that guides the work of the research center is to take the theme of Consciousness from the point of view of Knowledge, understood as a product, process or relationship.
Given the scope of this theme and its possibilities, the variety of approaches,
and possible technological developments consequential of them,
interdisciplinarity is a fundamental prerequisite.
The NEDECC
in its innovative aspect, by bringing together doctors, masters and doctoral students
from various regions of Brazil, besides having partners abroad, operates mainly
in cyberspace, through websites, discussion lists, chats and other media. The
importance of this research center and the impact of its work are measured by
the number of articles published, mostly in scientific journals and
international conferences.
The
Trans-Intelligence research will be developed by us within the NEDEC2 context,
and is a doctoral thesis subject, under the guidance of Professor Fialho.
More coming
soon...
Jussara Paraná Sanches Figueira (PhD student in
Engineering and Knowledge Management and a NEDEC2 member)
Charles Webb Jr. (Master in Psychobiology and a
NEDEC2 member)
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