Notes on papers, books and blogs about Cognitive Ergonomics, HCI, philosophy of design and everything interesting
He may be arrogant, obnoxious and his last book “The God Delusion” was mediocre… Still, he is a brilliant thinker which shows in his response to Edge’s excellent “What’s Your Formula?”:
Richard Dawkins
Tags: evolution, formula, algorithm, theory, biology, epistemology
The Moore’s law of storage has interesting consequences for the lifestreaming concept (especially of the MyLifeBits variety). The hypothesis is that we’ll have 10TB flash sticks in twenty years (via Jim Rossignol’s blog):
10Tb is an interesting number. That’s a megabit for every second in a year — there are roughly 10 million seconds per year. That’s enough to store a live DivX video stream […]
This paper attempts to disentangle the messy notion of embodied cognition. Different authors tend to mean different things by the term, and the author analyzes it to six claims:
Cognition is situated Cognition is time pressured We off-load cognitive work onto the environment The environment is part of the cognitive system Cognition is for action Off-line cognition is body based
There is […]
Technology was relatively neglected in classical Greece, because according to Ihde it was constrained by the Greeks’ aesthetics and also I think due to the platonic split between logos / techne, where the first was considered primordial over the latter. There was considerable technological development in hellenistic times because it was freed from such constraints […]
This is a collection of Chaitin’s more accessible articles. Most of these are an attempt to define his quasi-empirical epistemology, which is tries to be a dialectical transcendence of idealism and empiricism.
To present it he uses some very interesting quotes:
According to Plato, the world is rationally understandable because it has structure. And the universe has […]
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