In practice I am using a distributed artifact, the blogosphere as a part of intelligence.
the ideational definition of culture prevents us seeing that systems of socially distributed cognition may have interesting cognitive properties of their own. In the history of anthropology, there is scarcely a more important concept than the division of labor. In terms of the energy budget of a human group and the efficiency with which a group exploits its physical environment, social organizational factors often produce group properties that differ considerably from the properties of individuals. Clearly, the same sorts of phenomena occur in the cognitive domain. Depending on their organization, groups must have cognitive properties that are not predictable from a knowledge of the properties of the individuals in the group. The emphasis on finding and describing “knowledge structures” that are somewhere “inside” the individual encourages us to overlook the fact that human cognition is always situated in a complex sociocultural world and cannot be unaffected by it.
Gerog Christoph Lichtenberg ~ physicist & satirist
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
The weaponized form of McLuhan’s famous phrase the medium is the message is the phrase,
first we shape our tools, then our tools shape us
I have come to prefer this form of the idea, and my favorite motif for it is Doc Ock, the Marvel super-villain.
Links
- https://euppublishingblog.com/2019/06/13/a-history-of-distributed-cognition/
- https://blogs.ubc.ca/sociallearning512/distributed-cognition/
- https://andymatuschak.org/books/ ~ https://andymatuschak.org/sdac/
- https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
- https://thecynefin.co/the-blogosphere-as-an-artifact-of-distributed-cognition/
- https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2014/02/12/consensual-hells/
- https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/11/23/when-tools-shape-you/
- https://medium.com/%40mikekuniavsky/distributed-cognition-is-the-next-ai-ux-metaphor-9b324cd07e8b
- https://uxdesign.cc/ai-and-cognitive-offloading-sharing-the-thinking-process-with-machines-2d27e66e0f31
- https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm
- https://slow-thoughts.com/distributed-cognition/
- https://www.carequest.org/about/blog-post/how-distributed-cognition-can-improve-patient-care