The semantic sphere 1 : computation, cognition and information economy / Pierre Lévy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lévy, Pierre, 1956- author.

Series:

ISTE

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer storage devices.

Digital media.

Digital media--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London, England ; Hoboken, New Jersey : ISTE : Wiley, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 social sciences as well as a real familiarity with computer science issues, this book explains the collaborative construction of a global hypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. By recognizing fully the symbolic and social nature of human cognition, we could transform our current

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781118601471

1118601475

9781299139954

1299139957

9781118601426

1118601424

9781118601518

1118601513

OCLC:

826659636