Acknowledgments
by Pierre Lévy
The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy
- 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
Acknowledgements
The work presented here has been subsidized since 2002 mainly by the Canadian Government through the Canada Research Chairs Program. I also received two research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. I would like to thank Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb (who programmed the first version of the IEML1 dictionary and parser), Andrew Roczniak (who helped me formalize the mathematical theory of IEML), Christian Desjardins (who programmed an IEML-oriented database) and Samuel Szoniecky for their contributions.
My wife, Darcia Labrosse, has supported me in every possible way over the many years I have been working on the creation of IEML. She assisted and advised me in creating the diagrams and was an attentive, perceptive and tireless editor of this book. Without her, this book and even the IEML metalanguage would not have seen the light of day.
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