Category Archives: Cognitive commons

Creating and Curating the Cognitive Commons

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

Cognition is thinking, and the product of thinking is knowledge. Our species’ unique capacity for language empowered us to “mind-read” one another’s thoughts, creating and curating knowledge jointly through distributed, interactive cognition. The first and greatest cognitive revolution – the … Continue reading →

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Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Giorgio Bertini

“Cognizing” (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognizers can offload some of their cognitive functions onto … Continue reading →