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.Content:
Chapter 1 General Introduction (pages 1–36):
Chapter 2 The Nature of Information (pages 41–73):
Chapter 3 Symbolic Cognition (pages 75–87):
Chapter 4 Creative Conversation (pages 89–111):
Chapter 5 Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences (pages 113–134):
Chapter 6 The Information Economy (pages 135–158):
Chapter 7 Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind (pages 161–188):
Chapter 8 The Computer Science Perspective: Toward a Reflexive Intelligence (pages 189–206):
Chapter 9 General Presentation of the IEML Semantic Sphere (pages 207–234):
Chapter 10 The IEML Metalanguage (pages 235–252):
Chapter 11 The IEML Semantic Machine (pages 253–273):
Chapter 12 The Hypercortex (pages 275–297):
Chapter 13 Hermeneutic Memory (pages 299–321):
Chapter 14 The Perspective of the Humanities: Toward Explicit Knowledge (pages 323–339):
Chapter 15 Observing Collective Intelligence (pages 341–352):