creators_name: Harnad, Stevan
creators_id: 63
type: journalp
datestamp: 2005-06-19
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:06
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title: Distributed Processes, Distributed Cognizers and Collaborative Cognition
ispublished: inpress
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: Cognition, computation, artificial intelligence, Turing Test, neural networks, collaboration, robotics, consciousness, feeling, thinking, Descartes, mind-reading, open access, interoperability
note: Second special issue in the series Cognition and Technology. Distributed Cognition, Editors: Stevan Harnad and Itiel Dror. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~id/technologySI2.html
abstract: Cognition is thinking; it feels like something to think, and only those who can feel can think. There are also things that thinkers can do. We know neither how thinkers can think nor how they are able do what they can do. We are waiting for cognitive science to discover how. Cognitive science does this by testing hypotheses about what processes can generate  what  doing (“know-how”) This is called the Turing Test. It cannot test whether  a process can generate feeling, hence thinking -- only whether  it can generate doing. The processes that generate thinking and know-how are “distributed” within the heads of thinkers, but not across thinkers’ heads. Hence there is no such thing as distributed cognition, only collaborative  cognition. Email and the Web have spawned a new form of collaborative cognition that draws upon individual brains’ real-time interactive  potential  in ways that were not possible in oral, written  or print interactions. 


date: 2005
date_type: published
publication: Pragmatics and Cognition
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Harnad, Stevan  (2005) Distributed Processes, Distributed Cognizers and Collaborative Cognition.  [Journal (Paginated)]    (In Press)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4404/1/distribcog.pdf
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4404/2/distribcog.doc