The Semantic Sphere 1: Computation, Cognition and Information Economy

<p>Acknowledgements xv</p>
<p>Chapter 1. General Introduction 1</p>
<p>1.1. The vision: to enhance cognitive processes 2</p>
<p>1.2. A transdisciplinary intellectual adventure 5</p>
<p>1.3. The result: toward hypercortical cognition 27</p>
<p>1.4. General plan of this book 35</p>
<p>PART 1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION 37</p>
<p>Chapter 2. The Nature of Information 41</p>
<p>2.1. Orientation 41</p>
<p>2.2. The information paradigm 45</p>
<p>2.3. Layers of encoding 56</p>
<p>2.4. Evolution in information nature 66</p>
<p>2.5. The unity of nature 69</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Symbolic Cognition 75</p>
<p>3.1. Delimitation of the field of symbolic cognition76</p>
<p>3.2. The secondary reflexivity of symbolic cognition 78</p>
<p>3.3. Symbolic power and its manifestations 80</p>
<p>3.4. The reciprocal enveloping of the phenomenal world and semantic world 82</p>
<p>3.5. The open intelligence of culture 84</p>
<p>3.6. Differences between animal and human collective intelligence 85</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Creative Conversation 89</p>
<p>4.1. Beyond collective stupidity 89</p>
<p>4.2. Reflexive explication and sharing of knowledge 92</p>
<p>4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation 103</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences 113</p>
<p>5.1. The stakes of human development 113</p>
<p>5.2. Critique of the human sciences 120</p>
<p>5.3. The threefold renewal of the human sciences 125</p>
<p>5.4. The Ouroboros 133</p>
<p>Chapter 6. The Information Economy 135</p>
<p>6.1. The symbiosis of knowledge capital and cognitive labor 136</p>
<p>6.2. Toward scientific self–management of collective intelligence 140</p>
<p>6.3. Flows of symbolic energy 144</p>
<p>6.4. Ecosystems of ideas and the semantic information economy 148</p>
<p>6.5. The semantic information economy in the digital medium 154</p>
<p>PART 2. MODELING COGNITION 159</p>
<p>Chapter 7. Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind 161</p>
<p>7.1. Research program 161</p>
<p>7.2. The mind in nature 165</p>
<p>7.3. The three symbolic functions of the cortex 171</p>
<p>7.4. The IEML model of symbolic cognition. 176</p>
<p>7.5. The architecture of the Hypercortex 184</p>
<p>7.6. Overview: toward a reflexive collective intelligence 187</p>
<p>Chapter 8. The Computer Science Perspective: Toward a Reflexive Intelligence 189</p>
<p>8.1. Augmented collective intelligence 189</p>
<p>8.2. The purpose of automatic manipulation of symbols: cognitive modeling and self–knowledge 194</p>
<p>8.3. The means of automatic manipulation of symbols: beyond probabilities and logic 202</p>
<p>Chapter 9. General Presentation of the IEML Semantic Sphere 207</p>
<p>9.1. Ideas 208</p>
<p>9.2. Concepts 213</p>
<p>9.3. Unity and calculability 217</p>
<p>9.4. Symmetry 220</p>
<p>9.5. Internal coherence 225</p>
<p>9.6. Inexhaustible complexity 230</p>
<p>Chapter 10. The IEML Metalanguage 235</p>
<p>10.1. The problem of encoding concepts 235</p>
<p>10.2. Text units 238</p>
<p>10.3. Circuits of meaning 241</p>
<p>10.4. Between text and circuits 244</p>
<p>Chapter 11. The IEML Semantic Machine 253</p>
<p>11.1. Overview of the functions involved in symbolic cognition 253</p>
<p>11.2. Requirements for the construction of the IEML semantic machine 258</p>
<p>11.3. The IEML textual machine (S) 261</p>
<p>11.4. The STAR (Semantic Tool for Augmented Reasoning) linguistic engine (B) 264</p>
<p>11.5. The conceptual machine (T) 267</p>
<p>11.6. Conclusion 270</p>
<p>Chapter 12. The Hypercortex 275</p>
<p>12.1. The role of media and symbolic systems in cognition 275</p>
<p>12.2. The digital medium 277</p>
<p>12.3. The evolution of the layers of addressing in the digital medium 284</p>
<p>12.4. Between the Cortex and the Hypercortex 289</p>
<p>12.5. Toward an observatory of collective intelligence 291</p>
<p>12.6. Conclusion: the computability and interoperability of semantic and hermeneutic functions 296</p>
<p>Chapter 13. Hermeneutic Memory 299</p>
<p>13.1. Toward a semantic organization of memory 299</p>
<p>13.2. The layers of complexity of memory 302</p>
<p>13.3. Radical hermeneutics 304</p>
<p>13.4. The hermeneutics of information 308</p>
<p>13.5. The hermeneutics of knowledge 312</p>
<p>13.6. Wisdom 317</p>
<p>13.7. Collective interpretation games 318</p>
<p>Chapter 14. The Perspective of the Humanities: Toward Explicit Knowledge 323</p>
<p>14.1. Context 323</p>
<p>14.2. Methodology: the digital humanities 327</p>
<p>14.3. Epistemology: explicating symbolic cognition 331</p>
<p>Chapter 15. Observing Collective Intelligence 341</p>
<p>15.1. The semantic sphere as a mirror of concepts 341</p>
<p>15.2. The structure of the cognitive image 346</p>
<p>15.3. The two eyes of reflexive observation 350</p>
<p>Bibliography 353</p>
<p>Index 377</p>