The semantic sphere 1 : computation, cognition and information economy

Lévy, Pierre 1956- (Author).

Summary: "The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and social cognitive processes at the service of human development? Combining a deep knowledge of humanities and social sciences as well as a real familiarity with computer science issues, this book explains the collaborative construction of a global hypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. By recognizing fully the symbolic and social nature of human cognition, we could transform our current opaque global brain into a reflexive collective intelligence"--

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ISBN: 1848212518
ISBN: 9781848212510
ISBN: 1118601513
ISBN: 9781118601518
ISBN: 1118601475
ISBN: 9781118601471
ISBN: 1118601424
ISBN: 9781118601426
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 318 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: London : ISTE ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	General introduction -- The nature of information -- Symbolic cognition -- Creative conversation -- Toward an epistemological transformation of the human sciences -- The information economy -- Introduction to scienctific knowledge of the mind -- Th ecomputer science perspective : toward reflexive intelligence -- General presentation of IEML semantic sphere -- The IEML metalanguage -- The IEML semantic machine -- The hypercortex -- Hermeneutic memory -- The perspective of the humanities : toward explicit knowledge -- Observing collective intelligence.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.