THE CONSTRUCTION OF A RESEARCH PROJECT IN A COMPLEXITY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

This article proposes the term ontoepistemogênese to designate the process of complexification of a subject, which, when coupled with its environment, becomes integrated with repercussions in all dimensions of the human being. The process of ontoepistemogênese in an autopoietic perspective, forced us to think in terms of self-construction as inseparable from processes and overlapping continuous vital flow of being, both in relation to internal and external processes. In this sense, the process for handling research data in the Project GAIA seeks always to address autopoietic cognitive/affective operations in each member of the group. Thus, humans build their inventive process of ontoepistemogênese in response to external disturbances and through a power, which is a result of the connections and belonging to the networks. To carry out such a task we searched mainly to the guidelines that are setting the paradigm of complexity, as has been expressed mainly by Edgar Morin (Morin, 1991) and Clara da Costa Oliveira, (1999, 2004, 2005). In addition, among other researchers in the same field, we used Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela to construct a set of operative elements, which led us to the understanding of life, by bringing the principle of self-organization and, more specifically, the concept of autopoiesis to understand this dense web of relations that constitute the living system.