I'd like to bring this conversation a little closer to the aspect of IA that
Joe Ransdell devoted most of his paper to, namely the process of genuine peer
review that is facilitated by Ginsparg's innovation in physics, which amounts
to cutting the gatekeepers out of the publication process, and
Steven, Gene, Ben, Peter, List,
IA as contributing to the possibility of actual intelligence augmentation is a
mere goal of such visionary thinkers as Engelbart, Technology is a tool that
can be used wisely or poorly, as several have already noted. My friends who
teach in some of the better edu
I must say that I share Eugene's concern.
It seems to me that modern computing technology is less Intelligence
Augmentation and more a poorly contrived manipulation of intelligence, not all
of which has a beneficial effect and none of the effects of which are well
understood.
Indeed, when I co
Ben Udell asked: "...So, my question, which I find I have trouble
posing clearly, is, granting that IA involves an extension of mind in its
abilities/competences as well as its cognitions, does it much extend volition
and feeling (including emotion)?"
In my view it clearly does,
Peircers,
Recall that Aristotle makes the cognitive aspect of signs
derivative of their affections or impressions on the soul.
Words spoken are symbols or signs (symbola) of affections or impressions
(pathemata) of
the soul (psyche); written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing, so
Peter, list,
Thanks for your response.
The augmentationist vision itself in its essence does not seem a conceptually
difficult one. In the 1970s I had some amateur notion of it though I knew
nothing of practical developments in IA. Without the initial government funding
and without the early
Gary,
This may, as you note, be tangential to the present discussion, but it is
ceertainly of intrinsic interest, and I hope to find time to catch up on this
literature in the not too distant future.
Peter
From: Gary Richmond [richmon...@lagcc.cuny.edu]
I shall with fear and trembling venture a short explanation of the movement
to cyberfy the world. It signaled the end, bitter and ongoing, of oil and
the car. The PC became the new car, with requisite lingo about speed and so
forth. And availability to all. It was a market force toward the affordab
Ben,
Thank you for your comments, which I have been chewing on. I wish I had some
insightful responses, but this is all I come up with.
You wrote:
“I find it very hard to believe that the second computer revolution could have
very easily failed to take place soon enough after the first one, giv
