The semantic sphere 1 : computation, cognition and information economy /

• Main Author: Lévy, Pierre, 1956-
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : ISTE ; 2011.; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011.
• Subjects: Semantic Web.; Information society.; Human information processing.; Metalanguage.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Electronics > General.; COMPUTERS > Online Services > Resource Directories.; COMPUTERS > System Administration > Storage & Retrieval.; Electronic books.

"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 humaniti...

Table of Contents:

• General introduction
• The nature of information
• Symbolic cognition
• Creative conversation
• Toward an epistemological transformation of the human sciences
• The information economy
• Introduction to scienctific knowledge of the mind
• Th ecomputer science perspective : toward reflexive intelligence
• General presentation of IEML semantic sphere
• The IEML metalanguage
• The IEML semantic machine
• The hypercortex
• Hermeneutic memory
• The perspective of the humanities : toward explicit knowledge
• Observing collective intelligence.