Paradygmat neuroróżnorodności w perspektywie teorii informacji
The Paradigm of Neurodiversity from the Perspective of Information Theory

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an interpretation of the concept of neurodiversity, particularly the stage of contesting or queering neuronormativity, within the framework of cybernetic information theory. Its central argument is that cybernetics, as a transdisciplinary science of systems, and especially its conceptualisation of information through the relationship between signal and noise, can be helpful for reflecting on the nature of human cognitive diversity. Within this theoretical perspective, the pattern – that is, the recognised content of information – constitutes only an arbitrary or conventional imperative, intended to reduce contingency and to distinguish error from the norm, and noise from the pattern. The article’s main points of reference are Cécile Malaspina’s epistemology of noise and Claude Shannon’s theory of information.

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