Is cognition plus technology an unbounded system? Technology, representation and culture
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Niall J.L. Griffith
Abstract
The relationship between cognition and culture is discussed in terms of technology and representation. The computational metaphor is discussed in relation to its providing an account of cognitive and technical development: the role of representation and self-modification through environmental manipulation and the development of open learning from stigmery. A rationalisation for the transformational effects of information and representation is sought in the physical and biological theories of Autokatakinetics and Autopoiesis. The conclusion drawn is that culture, rather than being an intrinsic property of our human phenotype was learned and that cultural cognition is an information transforming system that is inadequately characterised by notions of parameterised deep-structure and that it is an open and potentially unbounded informational system.
Abstract
The relationship between cognition and culture is discussed in terms of technology and representation. The computational metaphor is discussed in relation to its providing an account of cognitive and technical development: the role of representation and self-modification through environmental manipulation and the development of open learning from stigmery. A rationalisation for the transformational effects of information and representation is sought in the physical and biological theories of Autokatakinetics and Autopoiesis. The conclusion drawn is that culture, rather than being an intrinsic property of our human phenotype was learned and that cultural cognition is an information transforming system that is inadequately characterised by notions of parameterised deep-structure and that it is an open and potentially unbounded informational system.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the authors ix
- Introduction 1
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Articles
- Making faces with computers 9
- Perceptual recalibration in sensory substitution and perceptual modification 29
- Distributed processes, distributed cognizers and collaborative cognition 47
- Robotics, philosophy and the problems of autonomy 61
- Technology and the management imagination 79
- Information and mechanical models of intelligence 109
- Is cognition plus technology an unbounded system? Technology, representation and culture 127
- Radical Empiricism, Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing 155
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- About the authors ix
- Introduction 1
-
Articles
- Making faces with computers 9
- Perceptual recalibration in sensory substitution and perceptual modification 29
- Distributed processes, distributed cognizers and collaborative cognition 47
- Robotics, philosophy and the problems of autonomy 61
- Technology and the management imagination 79
- Information and mechanical models of intelligence 109
- Is cognition plus technology an unbounded system? Technology, representation and culture 127
- Radical Empiricism, Empirical Modelling and the nature of knowing 155
- Index 185
