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Towards a Quantum-Like Cognitive Architecture for Decision-Making
We propose an alternative and unifying framework for decision-making that, by
using quantum mechanics, provides more generalised cognitive and decision
models with the ability to represent more information than classical models.
This framework can accommodate and predict several cognitive biases reported in
Lieder & Griffiths without heavy reliance on heuristics nor on assumptions of
the computational resources of the mind
Human/Humanity, Consciousness and Universe: Informational Relation
From the perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness elaborated and reported recently on the basis of the last
discoveries of the quantum mechanics and astrophysics, the meeting horizon between some ancient coherent empirical
models of the humanity and our modern scientific results is analyzed. These results are discussed in terms of information,
as a central axis relating the universe, the human and inter-humanity connections, and consciousness as an informational
tool for the exploration of the reality. Bringing into discussion the relevant recent discoveries of quantum mechanics (Higgs’
boson, disembodiment of information from the physical particles), and matter/information properties near the black holes,
it is reinforced the concept of information as one of the fundamental constituent of matter and of our universe, showing that
information is actually the base fabric of matter structures, living structures and universe. The huge quantity of dynamic
information engaged in the living structures, particularly in the human organism, necessary to maintain the life’s functions
and to allow the adaptation requirements, differentiates the living from non-living entities. It is shown that consciousness,
human and universe cannot be really understood if it is not introduced on the panoramic scene a new player – dark matter,
with more than 20% contribution, besides more than 70% dark energy and only 5% observable matter from the matter total
quantity. It is shown also that the Informational Model of Consciousness, consisting in an architecture of seven cognitive
centers, converges with the ancient models of chakras, of etheric body and aura concepts, with dual Taoist concepts of
universe and human body, contributing with answers to the “mind-body”, “nature or nurture” problems and even to Qualia
“hard” problem, and supporting the Jung’s concepts on the mind. Finally, some questions are addressed to the quantum
mechanics, concerning the retro-causal effect and non-locality principle
Transdisciplinarity seen through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition
Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of
industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of
knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New
developments in information processing and information communication
technologies allow increasingly complex and accurate descriptions,
representations and models, which are often multi-parameter, multi-perspective,
multi-level and multidimensional. This leads to the necessity of collaborative
work between different domains with corresponding specialist competences,
sciences and research traditions. We present several major transdisciplinary
unification projects for information and knowledge, which proceed on the
descriptive, logical and the level of generative mechanisms. Parallel process
of boundary crossing and transdisciplinary activity is going on in the applied
domains. Technological artifacts are becoming increasingly complex and their
design is strongly user-centered, which brings in not only the function and
various technological qualities but also other aspects including esthetic, user
experience, ethics and sustainability with social and environmental dimensions.
When integrating knowledge from a variety of fields, with contributions from
different groups of stakeholders, numerous challenges are met in establishing
common view and common course of action. In this context, information is our
environment, and informational ecology determines both epistemology and spaces
for action. We present some insights into the current state of the art of
transdisciplinary theory and practice of information studies and informatics.
We depict different facets of transdisciplinarity as we see it from our
different research fields that include information studies, computability,
human-computer interaction, multi-operating-systems environments and
philosophy.Comment: Chapter in a forthcoming book: Information Studies and the Quest for
Transdisciplinarity - Forthcoming book in World Scientific. Mark Burgin and
Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Editor
Laruelle Qua Stiegler: On Non-Marxism and the Transindividual
Alexander R. Galloway and Jason R. LaRiviére’s article “Compression in Philosophy” seeks to pose François Laruelle’s engagement with metaphysics against Bernard Stiegler’s epistemological rendering of idealism. Identifying Laruelle as the theorist of genericity, through which mankind and the world are identified through an index of “opacity,” the authors argue that Laruelle does away with all deleterious philosophical “data.” Laruelle’s generic immanence is posed against Stiegler’s process of retention and discretization, as Galloway and LaRiviére argue that Stiegler’s philosophy seeks to reveal an enchanted natural world through the development of noesis. By further developing Laruelle and Stiegler’s Marxian projects, I seek to demonstrate the relation between Stiegler's artefaction and “compression” while, simultaneously, I also seek to create further bricolage between Laruelle and Stiegler. I also further elaborate on their distinct engagement(s) with Marx, offering the mold of synthesis as an alternative to compression when considering Stiegler’s work on transindividuation. In turn, this paper seeks to survey some of the contemporary theorists drawing from Stiegler (Yuk Hui, Al-exander Wilson and Daniel Ross) and Laruelle (Anne-Françoise Schmidt, Gilles Grelet, Ray Brassier, Katerina Kolozova, John Ó Maoilearca and Jonathan Fardy) to examine political discourse regarding the posthuman and non-human, with a particular interest in Kolozova’s unified theory of standard philosophy and Capital
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