Desdobramentos cognitivos pelas artes: método, informação e decisão

Abstract

The topic chosen in this article is a method of scientific research that puts together references to scientific bibliography as well as to artworks (Cinema, Theater, Literature, etc). This work observers the location of this method in society. It discusses a set of concepts. Method, information, decision are the main ones, but it also takes a look at secundary concepts, such as system differentiation, structural coupling, communication and expectation. It employs, as its theoretical framework, Niklas Luhmann's theory of auto-referential systems. Also, this research uses an extract of Lars von Trier's film (the abortion scene) as an epiphanic background. Therefore, this scientific research article, regarding methodology, uses the method on which it aims at expatiating, i.e., it uses scientific and artistic references. Other aims are to analyze the relationship between legal, scientific and art system, between psychic systems and society, and between the concepts of expectation and decision.