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Human-Extended Machine Cognition, Paul Smart
The document discusses the concept of human-extended machine cognition. It describes how Clark and Chalmers' theory of the extended mind suggests that the human mind extends beyond the body through interactions with tools and technologies. The document argues that this perspective can also be applied to machines, suggesting that humans form part of the cognitive machinery that enables machine intelligence when interacting with systems on the internet. This presents an example of extended cognition that may be less controversial and could provide insights into philosophical problems about the nature of cognition and the relationship between humans and technologies.
Human-Extended Machine Cognition, Paul Smart
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- 2. The Extended Mind •Clark & Chalmers (1998): • Active externalism. • The machinery of the (human) mind extends beyond the bounds of skin and skull. • Two flavours: • Extended Mind Thesis (Mental States). • Extended Cognition Thesis (Mental Processes),
- 3. The Web-Extended Mind Web-BasedSystem Extended Cognitive System
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- 7. If {feature} Then{Category} Hard for humans Easy for machines Finch? Bunting? Hard for humans Hard for machines Blue Belly? Conical Beak? Easy for humans Hard for machines
- 8. If {feature} Then{Category} Hard for humans Easy for machines Finch? Bunting? Hard for humans Hard for machines Blue Belly? Conical Beak? Easy for humans Hard for machines WORLD WIDE WEB Image Analysis Feature Selection Classification Feature Extraction Validation MACHINE HUMAN COMMUNITY
- 9. Cogs in theMachine? • Extended Cognition: • Technological resources form part of the physical machinery of human mind. • Human-Extended Machine Cognition: • We humans form part of the physical machinery that realizes the cognitive routines of machines. • We are part of their minds! “In handicrafts and manufacture, the worker makes use of a tool; in the factory, the machine makes use of him.” - Karl Marx
- 10. So What? • Interdisciplinarylinks between philosophy of mind and computer science. • Less controversial example of extended cognition. • Resolution of long-standing philosophical problems: • Better understanding of active externalism. • Ethics: • Tools ’r’ us.
- 11. Publications • Smart, P.R. (2017) Situating Machine Intelligence within the Cognitive Ecology of the Internet. Minds and Machines, 27(2), 357-380. • Smart, P. R. (2017) Extended Cognition and the Internet: A Review of Current Issues and Controversies. Philosophy & Technology, 30(3), 357-390. • Smart, P. R. (submitted) Human-Extended Machine Cognition. Cognitive Systems Research. • Smart, P. R (in prep) The Extended Mind, Revisited.