Cognitive Code: Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain - Couverture souple

Bruder, Johannes

 
9780773559172: Cognitive Code: Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0773559175 ISBN 13 : 9780773559172
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020

Synopsis

As the second decade of the twenty-first century draws to a close, the cultural, social, and economic effects of artificial intelligence are becoming ever more apparent. Despite their long-intertwined histories, the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence research are notoriously divided. In Cognitive Code Johannes Bruder argues that seemingly incompatible scales of intelligence - the brain and the planet - are now intimately linked through neuroscience-inspired AI and computational cognitive neuroscience. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in brain imaging labs in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, alongside analyses of historical and contemporary literature, Cognitive Code examines how contemporary research on the brain makes routine use of engineering epistemologies and practices. Bruder elaborates on how the question of mimicking human cognition and thought on the scale of computer chips and circuits has gradually evolved into a comprehensive restructuring of the world through "smart" infrastructures. The brain, traditionally treated as a discrete object that thinks, is becoming part of the larger thinking network we now know as "the Cloud." The author traces a recent shift in the goals of brain imaging to show that the introduction of novel statistical and computational techniques has upset traditional paradigms and disentangled cognition from its biological substrate. Investigating understandings of intelligence from the micro to the macro, Cognitive Code explains how the future of human psychology is increasingly determined by engineering and design.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Johannes Bruder is a researcher at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures and the Critical Media Lab in Basel, Switzerland.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0773559175
ISBN 13 
9780773559172
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780773559165: Cognitive Code: Post-Anthropocentric Intelligence and the Infrastructural Brain

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0773559167 ISBN 13 :  9780773559165
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020
Couverture rigide