Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Cognitive Technology: Tool or Instrument?
CT '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics)
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics)
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Every new technology fundamentally changes social and organizational structures. The danger is that technology, when applied with little thought, will dictate the changes and we may not like the results. This paper draws parallels between our critique of the dangers inherent in pure technology (pure' in the sense of being free from all associations) end Kantian critique of pure reason. Two fundamental questions are posed: What are the limits of technological solutions to human related problems? (analogous to the question 'What are the limits of human thought and reason?') What are the preconditions under which penple can make sense of the technological world? (analogons to the question 'What are the preconditions in which poople can make sense of experience?'). We explore a phenomenon of unthinking application of pure tcehnology with reference to (1) human inability to perceive the thresholds beyond which technological solutions no longer apply to the human related problems they were originally intended to solve and (2) human tendency for a decontextuallzed understanding of the technologies involved.