Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology Export

@incollection{citeulike:3169779, abstract = {"Cognizing" (i.e., thinking, understanding, knowing, and having the capacity to do what cognizers can do) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes also do some of what cognizers can do, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognitive technology allows cognizers to offload some of the functions they would otherwise have had to execute with their own brains and bodies alone; it also extends cognizers' performance powers beyond those of brains and bodies alone. Language itself is a form of cognitive technology that allows cognizers to offload some of their brain functions onto the brains of other cognizers. Language also extends cognizers' individual and joint performance powers, distributing the load through interactive and collaborative cognition. Reading, writing, print, telecommunications and computing further extend cognizers' capacities. And now the web, with its distributed network of cognizers, digital databases and sofware agents, has become the Cognitive Commons in which cognizers and cognitive technology can interact globally with a speed, scope and degree of interactivity that yield performance powers inconceivable with unaided individual cognition alone.}, address = {Amsterdam}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Dror, Itiel and Harnad, Stevan}, booktitle = {Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds}, citeulike-article-id = {3169779}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3569}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3569}, day = {26}, editor = {Dror, Itiel and Harnad, Stevan}, eprint = {0808.3569}, keywords = {cognitive\_artifacts, distributed\_cognition}, month = {Aug}, posted-at = {2009-04-21 22:18:36}, priority = {5}, publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company}, title = {Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3569}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:3169779 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3169779 N2 - "Cognizing" (i.e., thinking, understanding, knowing, and having the capacity to do what cognizers can do) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes also do some of what cognizers can do, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognitive technology allows cognizers to offload some of the functions they would otherwise have had to execute with their own brains and bodies alone; it also extends cognizers' performance powers beyond those of brains and bodies alone. Language itself is a form of cognitive technology that allows cognizers to offload some of their brain functions onto the brains of other cognizers. Language also extends cognizers' individual and joint performance powers, distributing the load through interactive and collaborative cognition. Reading, writing, print, telecommunications and computing further extend cognizers' capacities. And now the web, with its distributed network of cognizers, digital databases and sofware agents, has become the Cognitive Commons in which cognizers and cognitive technology can interact globally with a speed, scope and degree of interactivity that yield performance powers inconceivable with unaided individual cognition alone. AD - Amsterdam TI - Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company T2 - Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds KW - cognitive_artifacts KW - distributed_cognition AU - Dror, Itiel AU - Harnad, Stevan A2 - Dror, Itiel A2 - Harnad, Stevan PY - 2008/Aug/26/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3569 ER -