Human Enactment Of Intelligent Technologies: Towards Metis And Mindfulness - Hardcover

Holford, W David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9811237271 ISBN 13: 9789811237270

Publisher: WSPC, 2021

Synopsis

This book demystifies what artificial intelligence is, examines its strength and limitations in comparison to what humans are capable of, and investigates the nature of human adaptive expertise across the concept of mètis. It also examines a particular family of mindsets that we as humans have adopted over the ages, namely epistemologies of representational knowledge. These representational perspectives have followed us into numerous fields, including how we perceive and comprehend human cognition — leading to 'with a hammer everything looks like a nail' syndrome. As such, this book presents the alternative phenomenological viewpoint of embodied direct reality within the cognitive sciences in the form of radical embodied cognition and, more importantly, how it allows us to better highlight and comprehend human mètis and its adaptive expertise. We then examine why we collectively continue to enact and perpetuate predominant mindsets of representations across the phenomena of mindlessness. To counter this, we re-visit the practice of individual and collective mindfulness, providing a potential 'beachhead' in our re-appropriation of technology (artificial intelligence) towards achieving the best of both worlds — that is, allowing human creativity and ingenuity to be expressed with artificial intelligence as a tool to help us do just that across meaningful human control. Finally, we conclude by examining current top-of-the-horizon activities and debates regarding quantum physics in relation to the human mind and artificial intelligence and how, once again, representational mindsets need not be the only tool in town.

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About the Author

<p><strong>W David Holford</strong>, PhD, P Eng. is a professional engineer and Professor of Management at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. He has published articles in several prominent journals including the<em> Journal of Business Ethics</em>, <em>Journal of Knowledge Management</em>, <em>Knowledge Management Research & Practice</em>, <em>Futures</em>, and <em>Prometheus</em>. He has published books in the fields of Management as well as Knowledge Management, his most recent being <em>Managing Knowledge in Organizations: A Critical Pragmatic Perspective</em>. His current research focuses on understanding the nature of tacit, embodied, and embedded expertise within various professions and, more specifically, the organizational challenges in identifying and retaining it within various digital work environments implementing 'intelligent' technologies. His fields of expertise include management, organizational sense-making, knowledge theory, phenomenology, and science, technology, and society. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the aerospace industry for 20 years (Pratt and Whitney Canada), assuming engineering and management roles of increasing responsibility.</p>

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811237271
• ISBN 13: 9789811237270
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242