Cognition distributed how cognitive technology extends our minds

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,...

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Otros Autores: Dror, Itiel E. (-), Harnad, Stevan R.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co 2008.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Benjamins current topics ; v. 16.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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: Adv.
Descripción Física:xiii, 258 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9789027222466
9789027289643