Thinking in the Cloud: The Cognitive Incorporation of Cloud-Based Technology

Clowes, Robert W.

doi:10.1007/s13347-014-0153-z

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“…This is the approach adopted by the current section. Although there is no doubt much more work to be done here-in particular, there are a number of other criteria that could be the focus of future analytic efforts (see Heersmink 2015;Clowes 2015;Sterelny 2010;Palermos 2014b)-this kind of analysis does reveal a range of issues that are likely to shape the profile of future philosophical debates in this area.…”

Section: Web-extended Mindsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Cognition and the Internet

Smart

2017

Philos. Technol.

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The Internet is an important focus of attention for those concerned with issues of extended cognition. In particular, the application of active externalist theorizing to the Internet gives rise to the notion of Internet-extended cognition: the idea that the Internet can (on occasion) form part of an integrated nexus of material elements that serves as the realization base for human mental states and processes. The current review attempts to survey a range of issues and controversies that arise in respect of the notion of Internet-extended cognition. These include the issue of whether the Internet, as a technological system, is able to support real-world cases of cognitive extension. It also includes issues concerning the cognitive and epistemic impacts of the Internet. Finally, the review highlights a range of issues and concerns that have not been the focus of previous philosophical attention. These include issues of 'network-extended cognitive bloat', 'conjoined minds', and an entirely new form of cognitive extension that goes under the heading of 'human-extended machine cognition'. Together, these issues serve to highlight the value and importance of Internet-extended cognition to contemporary philosophical debates about the extended mind. In particular, the notion of Internet-extended cognition has the potential to highlight points of philosophical progress that are not easily revealed by the kind of technologically low-grade cases that tend to animate the majority of philosophical discussions in this area.

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Section: Web-extended Mindsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Cognition and the Internet

Smart

2017

Philos. Technol.

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“…Burry 2011b; Menges and Ahlquist 2011;Oxman 2008;Davis 2013;Thomsen et al 2015) and while highly varied, cases from digital design and fabrication offer a privileged site for exploring cognitive theories that seek to better incorporate digital practice; in turn, current debates in the philosophy of mind and phenomenology of technics promise to cast new light on the nature of creativity and material engagement in computational design work. There are few examples of 4E cognition taking on the challenge of digital thought and action (see Clark 2003;Edmonson and Beale 2008;Alač 2011;Clowes 2015). In this paper, I hope to show how the frameworks of enactive and embodied cognition can overcome these challenges by pushing key concepts of MET (Malafouris 2013) into the digital realm to better understand how digital tools transform creative imagination.…”

Section: The Challenge Of Computational Design Thinking To 4e Cognitionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Enactive individuation: technics, temporality and affect in digital design and fabrication

Poulsgaard

2017

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The nature of creative engagement with computers and software presents a number of challenges to 4E cognition and requires the development of analytical frameworks that can encompass cognitive processes as they extend across material and informational realms. Here I argue that an enactive view of mind allows for better understanding of digital practice by advancing a dynamic, transactional, and affective framework for the analysis of computational design. This enactive framework is in part developed through the Material Engagement Theory (MET) put forward by Lambros Malafouris, in part from the phenomenologically inspired philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. Both advance temporality, technics and technique as key to understanding human creative imagination and their work can support each other in different ways; Stiegler allows for a theorisation of digital tools largely missing from the cognitive archaeology of Malafouris, whilst Malafouris provides a cognitive theory to further develop key ideas in Stiegler's philosophy. Bringing their work together through Gilbert Simondon's theory of individuation, I develop the concept of enactive individuation and apply this to the analysis of a case of robotic design and fabrication from my fieldwork with digital architects and engineers. This case allows for further exploration of how enactivism might productively be extended into the digital realm by underscoring the explorative engagement at heart of even highly systematic work with computers and software.

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“…Although the majority of research in this area is concerned with personal data stores (Van Kleek and O'Hara, 2014) and self-tracking technologies (Lupton, 2013), there is also considerable interest in the cognitive and epistemic impact of techniques that support personalized access to online information (e.g., Simpson, 2012). Issues of personalization and personal informatics are of interest from the perspective of both extended (Clowes, 2015) and embodied cognition (see Section 3.2).…”

Section: The Internet: a New Kind Of Cognitive Ecologymentioning

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“…In this respect, it is interesting to note that the general thrust of technology design seems to be largely in favor of the emergence of cognitively-potent forms of bio-technological merger (see Smart, in press). Of particular interest, are a range of technologies that target our mnemonic capabilities (Clowes, 2015). We thus use our mobile devices to store a lot of personalized information in the cloud and on the Internet, including appointments, birthdays, shopping-lists, sketches, annotated documents, to-do lists, notes, reminders, bookmarked timetables, and so on.…”

Section: Extended Cognitionmentioning

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The Cognitive Ecology of the Internet

Smart

Heersmink

Clowes

2017

Cognition Beyond the Brain

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In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of situated cognition theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind of cognitive ecology, providing almost constant access to a vast amount of digital information that is increasingly more integrated into our cognitive routines. We then briefly introduce situated cognition theory and its species of embedded, embodied, extended, distributed and collective cognition. Having thus set the stage, we begin by taking an embedded cognition view and analyze how the Internet aids certain cognitive tasks. After that, we conceptualize how the Internet enables new kinds of embodied interaction, extends certain aspects of our embodiment, and examine how wearable technologies that monitor physiological, behavioral and contextual states transform the embodied self. On the basis of the degree of cognitive integration between a user and Internet resource, we then look at how and when the Internet extends our cognitive processes. We end this chapter with a discussion of distributed and collective cognition as facilitated by the Internet.

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Thinking in the Cloud: The Cognitive Incorporation of Cloud-Based Technology

Cited by 77 publications

References 32 publications

Extended Cognition and the Internet

Extended Cognition and the Internet

Enactive individuation: technics, temporality and affect in digital design and fabrication

The Cognitive Ecology of the Internet

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