Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations
Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems, Volume 2: The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial
A Practical Logic of Cognitive Systems, Volume 2: The Reach of Abduction: Insight and Trial
Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning
Abductive Cognition: The Epistemological and Eco-Cognitive Dimensions of Hypothetical Reasoning
Facebook Has It: The Irresistible Violence of Social Cognition in the Age of Social Networking
International Journal of Technoethics
Ethics and Information Technology
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The aim of this paper is to connect studies in cognitive niches with the diffusion of high-technologies, cyborgs and robots, so to obtain a new framework for analyzing some dilemmas of future technological developments. Digital technologies dramatically boosted the niche constructing dynamics by allowing the construction of new informational environments and by the addition of pseudo-minds that are able to carry on the niche-construction activity side-to-side with human beings. Cognitive niches, structured to ease the environmental selective pressure, may progressively degenerate causing an increase in selective pressure and hence a reduction in welfare for the individuals: yet, when the failure is caused exactly by what was meant to benefit the population, and when the reversal of niche is (or seems to be) unfeasible, it is possible to individuate a "terminator niche."