Defining Knowledge II

by Maria Odete Madeira

We can talk about the knowledge as an existent, in itself and by itself, trying to define it, as such, or we can talk about the knowledge, from its production or its creation.Any production of knowledge is supported by an organizing activity that acts intentionally according to rules and whose objective is the resolution of problems and its own replication. The discovery of the double helix, by Watson and Crick, allowed one to apply, to the notion of living organization, the cybernetic scheme of a machine governed by an informational program, inscribed in the structure of the molecules of DNA, that organizes and runs all the cellular activity. In this way, a living organization can be signaled and referred to as a self-cognitive, self-organizing and self-replicating agent that is capable, through exchanges with the environment, of concentrating in itself the flows of order that prevent its disaggregation. "Being, doing and knowing are inseparable" (Morin).The access to knowledge, as well as any attempt of definition, can only be made, through the activity of the organizations, of the agents, of the beings or entities, or of the subjects, this, if we wish to have definitions of knowledge disambiguated, plausible and empirically verifiable.