The Consciousness' Drive Information Need and the Search for Meaning /

• Main Author: Cole, Charles (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Computers and civilization.; Information storage and retrieval.; Library science.; Cognitive psychology.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computers and Society.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Library Science.; Cognitive Psychology.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

What is the uniquely human factor in finding and using information to produce new knowledge? Is there an underlying aspect of our thinking that cannot be imitated by the AI-equipped machines that will increasingly dominate our lives? This book answers these questions, and tells us about our consciou...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Human Exceptionality: How We See Ourselves in Relation to the World
• 2 Framing - Lessons from Vermeer
• 3 Episodic Memory: Lessons from the Scrub Jays
• 4 Episodic Memory: Subjective Time-travel
• 5 Episodic-to-Mimetic Transition
• 6 Framing: The Mimetic-to-Mythic Transition
• 7 Framing: The Mythic-to-Theoretic Transition
• 8 Problem Set-Up: Minsky's Frame Theory
• 9 Individual Frame Level: Meno's Paradox
• 10 Group Frame Level: Information Avoidance
• 11 Nation Frame Level: The Dark Side
• 12 Solution: Opening the Information Loop: Constructing Information Channels
• 13 Solution: Belief-Begets-Knowledge: Definitions
• 14 Belief-based Information Search
• 15 The Model of the Consciousness' Drive: Information Need and the Search for Meaning.