Defending functionalism and self-reference in memory

In recent work, Sarah Robins, Gerardo Viera and Steven James have provided some insightful objections to the ideas offered in my book, Memory: A Self-Referential Account. In this paper, I put forward some responses to those objections. Robins challenges the idea that being a memory could be a matter of having a particular functional role within the subject’s cognitive economy. Viera challenges the idea that the content of a memory could explain some of its phenomenological properties. And James challenges the idea that our memories could be immune to error through misidentification. All three commentators are targeting, not tangential aspects of, but fundamental assumptions in the account of memory proposed in the book. For that reason, modifying some of those assumptions would amount to proposing a whole different account of memory. I hope to show, however, that such a radical move is not necessary. For there are possible responses to the objections from all three commentators which are available within the constraints of the account proposed in the book.

The Whiteness of Communication Studies

This chapter examines the role of data and whiteness in American social life. It aims to critique the 'cognitive economy of racial domination' as it manifests in this broad area of scholarship. Conceptualizing the reverberations and continuations of this domination requires temporarily setting aside the general canonical literature in communication theory. Directly and indirectly, it builds upon those who have also critiqued previous iterations of this racial domination. This includes Stuart Hall, who theorized identity as indeterminate, laden with multiplicities that are always in a process of becoming, Paul Gilroy, who did much to show how identity was connected to the development of circuits of accumulation during the course of modernity, and Sut Jhally, whose longstanding analysis of race in American media culture is the benchmark for any meaningful critique of contemporary life. In the last two decades, demographic shifts and hiring trends in the US and UK academic systems have taken some of the sharpness from the whiteness of communication theory. However, this does not mean that marginalization does not continue. Curriculums and faculty compliments do change, but they do under the long shadow of an Anglo-American colonial present where concurrently amnesia of and nostalgia for Pax Britannica justifies Pax Americana. The chapter addresses issues like misrecognition and ideology, and undertakes a study of the considerable amount of violence required to maintain racial hierarchies, both in the United States and elsewhere in the world.

Quantum Cognition and Its Influence on Decrease of Global Stress Level Related With Job Improvement Strategies

The quantum mind or quantum consciousness group of hypotheses propose that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. Quantum theory is used to insert models of cognition that target to be more innovative than models based on traditional classical probability theory, which includes cognitive modeling phenomena in science. At the moment we can say that there is no clearly defined neurophysiological mechanisms of creation of the quantum-like representation of information in the brain, but we can mention the hypothesis of matching the information processing in the brain with quantum information and probability with contextuality as the key word. Using limited cognitive resources, incompatibility provides humans the means for answering an unlimited number of questions, thus promoting parsimony and cognitive economy.

Entangled Entrepreneurial Competitiveness Advantage: An Opinion Paper

The economic action of any individual seems to be guided by psychological components belonging, often more to the sphere of the intuitive rather than to the logical mind. Cognitive Economics, unlike other critical approaches to neoclassical rationality, is aware of this reality and moves the center of gravity of the theory of the mind of the economic actor from the aspects of conscious, explicit, intentional, and rational towards the tacit, sub-conscious, intuitive and emotional. Cognitive Economics, as empirical theory, par excellence, does not refuse to consider the contribution of the mind to an economic decision. The role of the psyche in many situations of choice is undeniable. It is not, however, the only cognitive reality responsible for economic choices. From this point of view, the concept of limited rationality, remaining within a vision of intentionality in cognitive activities, loses much of its explanatory capacity. One of the motives for economic action is limited rationality because there is not enough computational capacity for calculating the consciousness and the intentions of the human mind. Rationality is also limited through the influence of intuitive, affective, emotional, and silent factors, which all characterize what we have called the intuitive mind. The economic actor’s mind theory is based on cognitive duplicity, integrating the insensitive and the intuitive component depending on the situations and contexts of a decision. However, there are few situations in which we can say that the insensitive component takes the decision without influence of that intuitive. A small part of the mind emerges to the surface image of the economic actor, which characterizes some of the intuitive. But it rests on the larger submerged body of the mind, which is not visible but responsible for guiding the inferential paths of homo-economicus. The’ cognitive economy assumes that this duality of the human mind and the primacy of the intuitive component explains economic action.

Music as Epistemic Construct: From Sonic Experience to Musical Sense-Making

Taking an epistemological stance towards music in a real-time listening situation entails a definition of music as a temporal and sounding art. This means that music cannot be described in abstract and detached terms as something “out there” in a virtual space but rather as something that impinges upon our senses in an actual “here and now.” Musical sense-making, therefore, should be considered a kind of ongoing knowledge construction with a dynamic tension between actual sensation and mental representation of sounding events. Four major dichotomies may be considered in this regard: the focal versus synoptic overview of the sounding music, the continuous/discrete processing of the sounds, the distinction between sensory experience versus cognitive economy, and the in-time/outside-of-time distinction. The author argues that a deliberate combination of these diverging approaches makes the musical experience a richer one.

New approaches to housing complexity: designing dwellings in the age of cognitive economy

Space is produced by a society in accordance with its habits, and habits, mostly in the Western society, have been heavily influenced by forms of production. Indeed, it is widely acknowledged that the Industrial Revolution definitely changed the space of modern landscapes, cities and dwellings life at all scales, and the way in which we perceive them. Cognitive capitalism is no exception. Since it fully established itself as one of the prevailing economic forces in the 21st century and in the Western world, it produced deep changes in the way in which people work, connect, and live. Starting from the assumption that changes in means of production generate new social relationships, this paper investigates how these changes might result in new ways of building architectural space. Without indulging in a deterministic attitude, it focuses on housing as one of the fundamental artefacts where a society expresses its approach to space. The house is a basic element of complex urban systems and is, therefore, the one calling for a more radical conceptual rethinking, marking an effective distance with the forms inherited from the previous centuries. Finally, the paper aims at understanding the repercussions of the digital paradigm on the space of dwelling, reasoning on some crucial questions to understand how housing might evolve, unfolding through its spatial configuration the new ways of life of the digital society.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence Techniques on the Entrepreneurship of the Leadership of International Business Organizations – A Suggested Model - An Analytical Study

Entrepreneurial leadership with a pure intellectual starting point has received the attention of high-quality international business organizations because of its need for leadership that possesses strategic thinking which can change with the changing circumstances surrounding it, hence the interest in the topic of entrepreneurial leadership with strategic thinking due to the acceleration of the complex environmental conditions surrounding these organizations, represented by the emergence of the phenomenon of globalization and the cognitive economy and technological progress, which may be represented here as the techniques of artificial intelligence, which prompted these leaders and their organizations to search for mechanisms for their continuity and stability in a competitive world. Therefore, it is expected that entrepreneur leaders possess the qualities of intellectual stimulation, which is an important matter in entrepreneurial leadership, and that they are also ready to change the existing status of their organizations by creating major changes, through taking advanced technological technologies. This is expected to help them achieve the visions of their organizations to reach local and global entrepreneurship. Therefore, the current study worked on knowing the impact of artificial intelligence on the entrepreneurship of the leadership of international business organizations to reach the added value of its strategic operations at the local and global levels.

The Idea of Noosphere in the Сontext of Modern Transformations

The idea of a noosphere for the first time formulated in V. Vernadsky's works in the 1940s in the recent years attracts attention of participants of the different trends of scientific search as it has the considerable hidden potential in a research of modern transformations. The creator of a noosphere – the Humanity, presented as the powerful geological force allocated with consciousness, getting to know and transforming the Nature itself is involved in deep transformations many results of which are unexpected for him and bring him problems and additional obligations. Effective implementation of informative opportunities of the idea of a noosphere assumes expansion of space of scientific search and overcoming cross-disciplinary borders. At the focus of research of authors: representation of a noosphere as the system endowed with the energy which generate other types of energy and involved in the difficult process of transformation of energy proceeding in space; structure of a noosphere and its basic components; a problem of responsibility of the Humanity in all its subject forms by results of activity, including, responsibility in its noosphere scale, creation of adequate mechanisms of implementation of such responsibility in the conditions of forming of the global market. The chimeric entities and the anti-systems accompanying them arise in the movement of a noosphere. Through the optics of the idea of a noosphere authors consider key problem nodes and contradictions of modern conversions, estimate the effects arising at the different levels of these processes, offer applied means for a solution of the tasks rising here. Article provides recommendations on upgrading the state policy in social and economic transformations. The authors’ results belong to one of the new and perspective directions of cross-disciplinary scientific search that causes essential novelty and the debatable nature of the provisions presented in article, conclusions and recommendations. During the research heuristic resources of a number of modern scientific theories were used: biospheres, passionarity, cognitive economy, social and economic transformations, human capital, ecology, etc.

Conceptual Relations Predict Colexification across Languages

In natural language, multiple meanings often share a single word form, a phenomenon known as colexification. Some sets of meanings are more frequently colexified across languages than others, but the source of this variation is not well understood. We propose that cross-linguistic variation in colexification frequency is non-arbitrary and reflects a general principle of cognitive economy: More commonly colexified meanings across languages are those that require less cognitive effort to relate. To evaluate our proposal, we examine patterns of colexification of varying frequency from about 250 languages. We predict these colexification data based on independent measures of conceptual relatedness drawn from large-scale psychological and linguistic resources. Our results show that meanings that are more frequently colexified across these languages tend to be more strongly associated by speakers of English, suggesting that conceptual associativity provides an important constraint on the development of the lexicon. Our work extends research on polysemy and the evolution of word meanings by grounding cross-linguistic regularities in colexification in basic principles of human cognition.