Ancora cyborg · 2006-05-30 by mmzz
Andy Clarke (quello dei Natural born cyborgs) scrive in Author’s Reply to symposium on Natural-Born Cyborgs
Once upon a time, there were beings whose minds were pretty much locked inside their heads. Then some of them developed (never mind how) the beginnings of human-like language. Cultured in the sea of words, these beings gradually learnt to treat their own thoughts as objects for reflection and study. With the invention of text, this process of building better worlds to think in really took off. We modern humans sit unsteadily atop this careening giant snowball of runaway co-adaptation. Our naturally plastic brains are fired in the developmental furnace of nth generation designer environments for thinking and for learning, and our thoughts are the thoughts of hybrid beings strung out between biology and those transformative waves of culture, technology and learning. [...]
When exactly did this snowball start to roll? And what exactly got it in motion? He wants to turn up the magnification on those critical points in human history (and pre-history), so as to identify the
hidden wellsprings of cognitive change.
Ho l’impressione che l’evento sia stato accidentale, e determinato dalla necessita’ di previsione. Ho la tentazione di identificare cio’ che chiamaiamo intelligenza con l’efficacia del processo di previsione, Non tutti sono capaci di prevedere cosa accadra’ all’ambiente in cui vivono. Quelli che lo fanno con maggiore efficacia sono piu’ adatti all’ambiente. Da cio’ deriva la tendenza all’apprendimento. Il linguaggio come strumento per descrivere l’ambiente ne rende la previsione piu’ agevole.
Anche gli artisti… augmented reality.
