Article:
Where the Sun never Shines: Emerging Paradigms of Post-enlightened Cognition

dc.creatorBruder, Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-10T10:07:24Z
dc.date.available2020-03-10T10:07:24Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, I elaborate on deliberations of “post-enlightened cognition” between cognitive neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence research. I show how the design of machine learning algorithms is entangled with research on creativity and pathology in cognitive neuroscience and psychology through an interest in “episodic memory” and various forms of “spontaneous thought”. The most prominent forms of spontaneous thought – mind wandering and day dreaming – appear when the demands of the environment abate and have for a long time been stigmatized as signs of distraction or regarded as potentially pathological. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience, however, conceptualizes spontaneous thought as serving the purpose of, e. g., creative problem solving and hence invokes older discussions around the links between creativity and pathology. I discuss how attendant attempts at differentiating creative cognition from its pathological forms in contemporary psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and AI puts traditional understandings of rationality into question.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25969/mediarep/13529
dc.identifier.urihttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0109.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/14455
dc.languageeng
dc.publishertranscript
dc.publisher.placeBielefeld
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2364-2114
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDigital Culture & Society
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectartificial intelligenceen
dc.subjectAIen
dc.subjectmachine learningen
dc.subjectpathologyen
dc.subjectcreativityen
dc.subjectneuroscienceen
dc.subjectcognitionen
dc.subjectneural networken
dc.subjectKünstliche Intelligenzde
dc.subjectDeep Dreamde
dc.subjectKIde
dc.subjectDeepMindde
dc.subjectMaschinelles Lernende
dc.subjectPathologiede
dc.subjectKreativitätde
dc.subjectNeurowissenschaftende
dc.subjectKognitionde
dc.subjectNeuronales Netzwerkde
dc.subject.ddcddc:006
dc.subject.ddcddc:150
dc.titleWhere the Sun never Shines: Emerging Paradigms of Post-enlightened Cognitionen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T02:32:39
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttp://digicults.org/files/2019/11/dcs-2018-0109.pdf
local.source.epage153
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleRethinking AI
local.source.spage133
local.source.volume4
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20856875
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15733006

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