Table of Contents
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 Information
Chapter 2. The Nature of Information
2.4. Evolution in information nature
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
4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation
Chapter 5. Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences
5.1. The stakes of human development
5.2. Critique of the human sciences
5.3. The threefold renewal 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
6.4. Ecosystems of ideas and the semantic information economy
6.5. The semantic information economy in the digital medium
Chapter 7. Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind
7.3. The three symbolic functions of the cortex
7.4. The IEML model of symbolic cognition
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
Chapter 10. The IEML Metalanguage
10.1. The problem of encoding concepts
10.4. Between text and circuits
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
11.3. The IEML textual machine (S)
11.4. The STAR (Semantic Tool for Augmented Reasoning) linguistic engine (B)
11.5. The conceptual machine (T)
12.1. The role of media and symbolic systems in cognition
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
13.4. The hermeneutics of information
13.5. The hermeneutics of knowledge
13.7. Collective interpretation games
Chapter 14. The Perspective of the Humanities: Toward Explicit Knowledge
14.2. Methodology: the digital humanities
14.3. Epistemology: explicating symbolic cognition
Chapter 15. Observing Collective Intelligence
15.1. The semantic sphere as a mirror of concepts
15.2. The structure of the cognitive image