Socio-Cognitive Engineering Foundations and Applications: From Humans to Nations

This presentation has the character of a position paper. The author attempts to the identification and specification of socio-cognitive engineering as to a new field of research and, in parallel, as to a new systemic but redefined engineering approach which is based on interdisciplinary integrated paradigms applied to the domains of cognitive and social sciences together. The concepts of an abstract intelligence and decision-making are considered key properties of every socio-cognitive system. The TOGA meta-theory is employe d to the analysis of motivations, real needs, and possible know-how of socio-cognitive engineering foundations. The socio-cognitive paradigms can be considered useful for the study of individual personal thinking, as well as, for the analysis and understanding of decisional processes on social and international levels.