Environments of Intelligence

From natural information to artificial interaction

AvHajo Greif

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily natural, environmentally embedded in character, which had been eclipsed by information-processing views of cognition. He continues with an inquiry into the cognitive bearing of some artefacts that are sometimes referred to as 'intelligent environments'. Without necessarily having much to do with Artificial Intelligence, such artefacts may ultimately modify our informational environments.With respect to human cognition, the most notable effect of digital computers is not that they might be able, or become able, to think but that they alter the way we perceive, think and act.The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-07-05
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:360 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:History and Philosophy of Technoscience
Antal sidor:218
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367348717

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Hajo Greif teaches at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich, Germany, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests cover the philosophy – and some of the history and the social studies – of science and technology, as well as the philosophy of mind.

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"An absorbing volume that integrates an extraordinarily wide area of work, with interesting observations and new twists right to the end."Ruth Millikan, University of Connecticut, USA

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Preliminaries: Ants and Robots, Parlour Games and Steam DrillsBackgroundOutlineI Informational Environments Resurrecting Dretskean InformationInformation, Behaviour, and ProbabilityThe Content of Natural Information, and Some DiscontentAlternative InformationNatural Information and the Roots of Intentionality Varieties of PerceptionPerception as Information Processing: The Computational ViewInformation Specifies Affordances: The Ecological ViewPerceptual Illusions vs. Misperception: The Empirical Strategy The Domains of Natural InformationNatural Information and Reference ClassesInformational DomainsResurrection at Last Making an EnvironmentHistory, Ecology, EnvironmentAdapting Ecological NichesConstruction and Constitution What is an Informational Environment?Environmental Information and the Use of CognitionWhat Informational Environments AreHow Informational Environments Change II Environments of Intelligence The Extension of the Extended MindThe Extension of Functional HistoriesThe Constitution of Cognitive ExtensionsConstitutional MattersThe Art of Coupling, Basic and Advanced The Nature of Cognitive ArtefactsBeing Guided by PicturesCognitive Artefacts and Informational EnvironmentsConvergence and Isomorphism The Intelligence of EnvironmentsEvolutionary and Cognitive RoboticsEmbodied Conversational Agents and Social RoboticsSecond LifeMixed Reality GamesAugmented RealityNaturalising the Artificial10 Afterthoughts on Conceptual Analysis and Human NatureA Domain for Conceptual AnalysisA Naturalist’s View of Human Nature and MachinesBibliographyIndex