The semantic sphere 1 computation, cognition and information economy
The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and social cognitive processes at the service of human development? Combining a deep knowledge of humanities and...
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London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey :
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2011.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628555206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. General Introduction; 1.1. The vision: to enhance cognitive processes; 1.1.1. The semantic imperative; 1.1.2. The ethical imperative; 1.1.3. The technical imperative; 1.2. A transdisciplinary intellectual adventure; 1.2.1. The years of training, 1975-1992; 1.2.2. The years of conception 1992-2002; 1.2.3. The years of gestation, 2002-2010; 1.3. The result: toward hypercortical cognition; 1.3.1. A system of coordinates; 1.3.2. An information economy; 1.3.3. A Hypercortex to contribute to cognitive augmentation
- 1.4. General plan of this book PART 1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION; Chapter 2. The Nature of Information; 2.1. Orientation; 2.2. The information paradigm; 2.2.1. Information and symbolic systems; 2.2.2. The sources of the information paradigm; 2.2.3. Information between form and difference; 2.2.4. Information and time; 2.3. Layers of encoding; 2.3.1. A layered structure; 2.3.2. The physicochemical and organic layers; 2.3.3. The phenomenal layer; 2.3.4. The symbolic layer; 2.3.5. A synthetic view of the layers of information; 2.4. Evolution in information nature; 2.5. The unity of nature
- 2.5.1. Natural information and cultural information 2.5.2. Nature as a "great symbol"; Chapter 3. Symbolic Cognition; 3.1. Delimitation of the field of symbolic cognition; 3.1.1. Singularity; 3.1.2. Social and technical dimensions; 3.1.3. Symbolic manipulation goes far beyond linguistic competence and "reason"; 3.2. The secondary reflexivity of symbolic cognition; 3.2.1. The primary reflexivity of phenomenal consciousness; 3.2.2. The secondary reflexivity of discursive consciousness; 3.3. Symbolic power and its manifestations
- 3.4. The reciprocal enveloping of the phenomenal world and semantic world 3.5. The open intelligence of culture; 3.6. Differences between animal and human collective intelligence; Chapter 4. Creative Conversation; 4.1. Beyond "collective stupidity"; 4.2. Reflexive explication and sharing of knowledge; 4.2.1. Personal and social knowledge management; 4.2.2. The role of explication in social knowledge management; 4.2.3. Dialectic of memory and creative conversation; 4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation; 4.3.1. The question of the symbolic medium
- 4.3.2. The metalinguistic articulation of organized memory 4.3.3. How can creative conversation organize digital memory?; Chapter 5. Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences; 5.1. The stakes of human development; 5.1.1. The scope of human development; 5.1.2. In search of models of human development; 5.1.3. Social capital and human development; 5.1.4. The knowledge society and human development: a six-pole model; 5.2. Critique of the human sciences; 5.2.1. Human sciences and natural sciences; 5.2.2. Internal fragmentation; 5.2.3. Methodological weaknesses
- 5.2.4. Lack of coordination
