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Can Computers Create Meanings? A Cyber/Bio/Semiotic Perspective
Critical Inquiry ( IF 1.944 ) Pub Date : 2019-09-01 , DOI: 10.1086/705303
N. Katherine Hayles

Biological evolution, having proceeded for a few million years and produced humans, has now entered a new stage. I adapt a useful phrase from Terrence Deacon, “complexity catastrophe,” to denote the limits of human biological cognition in which further increases in capacity are constrained by the neuronal system’s processing speed and memory storage. The solution has been to invent computational media to extend and amplify human abilities. The result is biotechnoevolution, a hybrid process in which information, interpretations, and meanings circulate through flexible interactive human-computational collectivities or, in my terminology, cognitive assemblages. Our understanding of how cognitive assemblages work has been impeded by views of computational media that position them as mere calculators without the ability to create, disseminate, or participate inmeaning-making activities. This view, widely shared among philosophers and even some computer scientists, is undergirded by questionable assumptions that make humans the sole possessors of agency, value, and cognition. In addition to reinforcing a worldview in which humans have sole dominion over the earth, this perspective badly distorts the actual effects of cognitive assemblages in developed societies and obscures the ways in which biotechnoevolution presents us with urgent issues about our collective futures, human and nonhuman. Articulating a better framework through which to understand cognitive assemblages is this essay’s work.

中文翻译:

计算机能创造意义吗?网络/生物/符号学视角

经历了几百万年的生物进化,产生了人类,现在进入了一个新的阶段。我改编了 Terrence Deacon 的一个有用的短语,“复杂性灾难”,以表示人类生物认知的极限,其中容量的进一步增加受到神经元系统处理速度和记忆存储的限制。解决方案是发明计算媒体来扩展和放大人类的能力。结果是生物技术进化,这是一个混合过程,在这个过程中,信息、解释和意义通过灵活的交互式人类计算集体,或者用我的术语来说,是认知组合。我们对认知组合如何工作的理解受到了计算媒体观点的阻碍,这些观点将它们定位为纯粹的计算器,没有能力创造、传播、或参与意义创造活动。这种在哲学家甚至一些计算机科学家中广泛共享的观点得到了有问题的假设的支持,这些假设使人类成为能动性、价值和认知的唯一拥有者。除了强化人类对地球拥有唯一统治权的世界观之外,这种观点严重扭曲了发达社会中认知组合的实际影响,并模糊了生物技术进化向我们提出关于人类和非人类集体未来的紧迫问题的方式。阐明一个更好的框架来理解认知组合是本文的工作。以有问题的假设为基础,这些假设使人类成为能动性、价值和认知的唯一拥有者。除了强化人类对地球拥有唯一统治权的世界观之外,这种观点严重扭曲了发达社会中认知组合的实际影响,并模糊了生物技术进化向我们提出关于人类和非人类集体未来的紧迫问题的方式。阐明一个更好的框架来理解认知组合是本文的工作。以有问题的假设为基础,这些假设使人类成为能动性、价值和认知的唯一拥有者。除了强化人类对地球拥有唯一统治权的世界观之外,这种观点严重扭曲了发达社会中认知组合的实际影响,并模糊了生物技术进化向我们提出关于人类和非人类集体未来的紧迫问题的方式。阐明一个更好的框架来理解认知组合是本文的工作。这种观点严重扭曲了认知组合在发达社会中的实际影响,并模糊了生物技术进化向我们提出关于人类和非人类集体未来的紧迫问题的方式。阐明一个更好的框架来理解认知组合是本文的工作。这种观点严重扭曲了认知组合在发达社会中的实际影响,并模糊了生物技术进化向我们提出关于人类和非人类集体未来的紧迫问题的方式。阐明一个更好的框架来理解认知组合是本文的工作。
更新日期:2019-09-01
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