Human Enactment Of Intelligent Technologies: Towards Metis And Mindfulness

This book explores the nature of human adaptive expertise and the role of representation in understanding human cognition. It introduces the concept of radical embodied cognition and advocates for a re-appropriation of technology (artificial intelligence) to achieve the best of both worlds, combining human creativity and ingenuity with artificial intelligence as a tool. It also examines current activities and debates in quantum physics related to the human mind and artificial intelligence and suggests that representational mindsets need not be the only tool in town.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 244 pages
\n Publication date: 24 August 2021
\n Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic in recent years, with its potential to revolutionize various industries and improve our lives. However, there is still much debate about what AI is, how it works, and its limitations compared to human capabilities. This book aims to demystify AI and explore its strengths and limitations in comparison to what humans are capable of.

One of the key themes of the book is the nature of human adaptive expertise. The author argues that humans have developed a particular family of mindsets, known as epistemologies of representational knowledge, that have followed us into numerous fields, including how we perceive and comprehend human cognition. These representational perspectives have led to the "with a hammer everything looks like a nail syndrome," where we apply the same approach to everything, regardless of its nature.

The book presents the alternative phenomenological viewpoint of embodied direct reality within the cognitive sciences in the form of radical embodied cognition. This viewpoint suggests that our experiences are not just representations of the external world, but are directly experienced through our bodies and minds. By adopting this perspective, we can better highlight and comprehend human mètis and its adaptive expertise.

The book then examines why we collectively continue to enact and perpetuate predominant mindsets of representations across the phenomena of mindlessness. The author argues that this is due to a variety of factors, including the influence of media, education, and social norms. To counter this, the book re-visits the practice of individual and collective mindfulness, providing a potential beachhead in our re-appropriation of technology (AI) towards achieving the best of both worlds.

The book concludes by examining current top-of-the-horizon activities and debates regarding quantum physics in relation to the human mind and artificial intelligence. The author argues that representational mindsets need not be the only tool in town and that we can develop new ways of understanding and interacting with AI that are more aligned with our embodied direct reality.

Overall, this book is a valuable contribution to the debate about AI and its potential to shape our future. It provides a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of AI's strengths and limitations, as well as the nature of human adaptive expertise. By adopting a phenomenological perspective and re-visiting the practice of mindfulness, the book offers a potential path towards achieving the best of both worlds, where human creativity and ingenuity can be expressed with artificial intelligence as a tool to help us achieve our goals.

\n Weight: 490g\n
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9789811237270\n \n