Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds

Dror, Itiel E. (Editor)/ Harnad, Steven (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027222460 / ISBN 13: 9789027222466

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2008

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258 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027222460
• ISBN 13: 9789027222466
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.64 kilograms

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Synopsis

Our species has been a maker and user of tools for over two million years, but "cognitive technology" began with language. Cognition is thinking, and thinking has been "distributed" for at least the two hundred millennia that we have been using speech to interact and collaborate, allowing us to do collectively far more than any of us could have done individually. The invention of writing six millennia ago and print six centuries ago has distributed cognition still more widely and quickly, among people as well as their texts. But in recent decades something radically new has been happening: Advanced cognitive technologies, especially computers and the Worldwide Web, are beginning to redistribute cognition in unprecedented ways, not only among people and static texts, but among people and dynamical machines. This not only makes possible new forms of human collaboration, but new forms of cognition. This book examines the nature and prospects of distributed cognition, providing a conceptual framework for understanding it, and showcasing case studies of its development. This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition (14:2, 2006).