- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: General Introduction
- 1.1. The vision: to enhance cognitive processes
- 1.2. A transdisciplinary intellectual adventure
- 1.3. The result: toward hypercortical cognition
- 1.4. General plan of this book
- Part 1. The Philosophy of Iinformation
- Chapter 2: The Nature of Information
- Chapter 3: Symbolic Cognition
- 3.1. Delimitation of the field of symbolic cognition
- 3.2. The secondary reflexivity of symbolic cognition
- 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
- 4.2.1.1. Introduction to knowledge management
- 4.2.1.2. The cycle of personal knowledge management
- 4.2.1.2.1. Attention management
- 4.2.1.2.2. Choice of sources
- 4.2.1.2.3. Collection, filtering, categorization and recording of information flows
- 4.2.1.2.4. Synthesis, sharing and conversation
- 4.2.1.2.5. The feedback loop of personal knowledge management
- 4.2.1.2.6. Techniques pass but cognitive function remains
- 4.2.2. The role of explication in social knowledge management
- 4.2.3. Dialectic of memory and creative conversation
- 4.2.1. Personal and social knowledge management
- 4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation
- Chapter 5: Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences
- Chapter 6: The Information Economy
- 6.1. The symbiosis of knowledge capital and cognitive labor
- 6.2. Toward scientific self-management of collective intelligence
- 6.3. Flows of symbolic energy
- 6.4. Ecosystems of ideas and the semantic information economy
- 6.5. The semantic information economy in the digital medium
- Part 2. Modeling Cognition
- Chapter 7: Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind
- 7.1. Research program
- 7.2. The mind in nature
- 7.3. The three symbolic functions of the cortex
- 7.4. The IEML model of symbolic cognition
- 7.4.1. The semantic sphere: the mathematical basis of the IEML model of the mind
- 7.4.2. The Cortex, the Hypercortex and the semantic sphere
- 7.4.3. The Cortex, the Hypercortex and the mind
- 7.4.4. General structure of the IEML model
- 7.4.5. IEML as machine: formal properties
- 7.4.6. IEML as metalanguage: semantic properties
- 7.4.7. IEML as a universe of games: pragmatic properties
- 7.5. The architecture of the Hypercortex
- 7.6. Overview: toward a reflexive collective intelligence
- Chapter 8: The Computer Science Perspective: Toward a Reflexive Intelligence
- 8.1. Augmented collective intelligence
- 8.2. The purpose of automatic manipulation of symbols: cognitive modeling and self-knowledge
- 8.3. The means of automatic manipulation of symbols: beyond probabilities and logic
- Chapter 9: General Presentation of the IEML Semantic Sphere
- 9.1. Ideas
- 9.2. Concepts
- 9.3. Unity and calculability
- 9.4. Symmetry
- 9.5. Internal coherence
- 9.6. Inexhaustible complexity
- Chapter 10: The IEML Metalanguage
- Chapter 11: The IEML Semantic Machine
- 11.1. Overview of the functions involved in symbolic cognition
- 11.2. Requirements for the construction of the IEML semantic machine
- 11.2.1. Concepts must be encoded in IEML as semantic networks
- 11.2.2. The conceptual, textual and linguistic functions of the IEML semantic machine must be inseparable
- 11.2.3. Concepts encoded in IEML must be variables of a transformation group
- 11.2.4. Concepts encoded in IEML must be automatically translated into natural languages
- 11.3. The IEML textual machine (S)
- 11.4. The STAR (Semantic Tool for Augmented Reasoning) linguistic engine (B)
- 11.5. The conceptual machine (T)
- 11.6. Conclusion
- Chapter 12: The Hypercortex
- 12.1. The role of media and symbolic systems in cognition
- 12.2. The digital medium
- 12.3. The evolution of the layers of addressing in the digital medium
- 12.4. Between the Cortex and the Hypercortex
- 12.5. Toward an observatory of collective intelligence
- 12.6. Conclusion: the computability and interoperability of semantic and hermeneutic functions
- Chapter 13: Hermeneutic Memory
- 13.1. Toward a semantic organization of memory
- 13.2. The layers of complexity of memory
- 13.3. Radical hermeneutics
- 13.4. The hermeneutics of information
- 13.5. The hermeneutics of knowledge
- 13.6. Wisdom
- 13.7. Collective interpretation games
- Chapter 14. The Perspective of the Humanities: Toward Explicit Knowledge
- 14.1. Context
- 14.2. Methodology: the digital humanities
- 14.3. Epistemology: explicating symbolic cognition
- 14.3.1. Reflexive knowledge and non-reflexive knowledge
- 14.3.2. The cognitive process
- 14.3.3. Essences: the power of symbolic cognition
- 14.3.4. Concepts: intellectual cognition
- 14.3.5. Ideas: affective cognition
- 14.3.6. Stories: narrative cognition
- 14.3.7. Autopoietic cognition
- 14.3.8. The dark side of power
- Chapter 15. Observing Collective Intelligence
- 15.1. The semantic sphere as a mirror of concepts
- 15.2. The structure of the cognitive image
- 15.3. The two eyes of reflexive observation
- Chapter 7: Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
A, B
abstract machine
affect
arithmetic and logical functions
artificial intelligence (AI)
augmented
cognition
intelligence
automatic
manipulation of symbols
symbol manipulation
biology
biosphere
C
calculability
calculation
categorization
cloud computing
collective
intelligence
interpretation game
complexity
computation
concept
conceptual machine
cosmos
creative conversation
D, E, F
dialectic
digital medium
distributed calculation
ecosystem of ideas
emotion
emptiness
empty
epistemology
explication
explicit
function of perception, phenomenal idea
function of thought, noumenal idea
G, H
grammar
group structure, transformation group
hermeneutic function
hermeneutics (tradition, memory, freedom)
human development
humanities
Hypercortex
hypercortical cognition
hypertext
I
idea
inexhaustible complexity
infomation
economy, knowledge society (in the common sense)
Information Economy Metalanguage (IEML)
Internet
interoperability, semantic interoperability
K, L, M
knowledge management
layers of complexity
linguistic engine
mana
media
meme, memetics
N, O, P, R
narrative
natural language
neural computation
non-symbolic cognition
noosphere
opacity
paradigm
percept (component of an idea)
perception
personal knowledge management
pragmatics
radical hermeneutics
reflection, reflexivity
regular language
rhetoric
S
scientific knowledge (epistemology)
scientific modeling
semantic
circuit
computation
current
function
inference
information economy based on IEML (in the specialized sense)
information unit
machine
sphere
social
capital
computing
media
symbolic
cognition
manipulation
system
symmetry
syntagm, syntagmatic
syntax, syntactic function
system of coordinates
T, U, W
tacit
text
textual machine
thing (in the IEML model)
transparency/implicit
triplication
trivium
ubiquitous computing
URL
USL
Web
of data
writing
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