Abstract
There is a growing recognition within cognitive enhancement and neuroethics debates of the need for greater emphasis on cognitive artefacts. This paper
aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhancement and neuroethics debates by focusing on a particular form of relation or coupling between humans and cognitive artefacts: interactiondominance.
We argue that interaction-dominance as an emergent property of some human-cognitive artefact relations has important implications for understanding
the attribution and distribution of causal and other forms of responsibility as well as agency relating to the actions of human-cognitive artefact couplings. Interactiondominance is both indicated and constituted by the phenomenon of Bpink noise^. Understanding the role of noise in this regard will establish a necessary theoretical groundwork for approaching the ethical and political dimensions of relations between human cognition and digital cognitive artefacts. We argue that pink noise in this context plays a salient role in the practical,
ethical, and political evaluation of coupling relations between humans and cognitive artefacts, and subsequently in the responsible innovation of cognitive artefacts and human-artefact interfaces.
aims to contribute to this broadening and expansion of the cognitive-enhancement and neuroethics debates by focusing on a particular form of relation or coupling between humans and cognitive artefacts: interactiondominance.
We argue that interaction-dominance as an emergent property of some human-cognitive artefact relations has important implications for understanding
the attribution and distribution of causal and other forms of responsibility as well as agency relating to the actions of human-cognitive artefact couplings. Interactiondominance is both indicated and constituted by the phenomenon of Bpink noise^. Understanding the role of noise in this regard will establish a necessary theoretical groundwork for approaching the ethical and political dimensions of relations between human cognition and digital cognitive artefacts. We argue that pink noise in this context plays a salient role in the practical,
ethical, and political evaluation of coupling relations between humans and cognitive artefacts, and subsequently in the responsible innovation of cognitive artefacts and human-artefact interfaces.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 269-281 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | NanoEthics |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
Keywords
- Noise
- Extended mind
- cognitive science
- cognitive artefacts
- Responsible research and innovation RRI
- enhancement
- Value-sensitive design
- INFORMATION
- Interaction-dominant systems
- Human enhancement technology
- Responsibility
- Pink noise
- Cognitive artefacts
- Distributed cognition
- DISTRIBUTED MORALITY
- Responsible research and innovation
- SENSORY SUBSTITUTION
- Extended mind thesis
- HUMAN COGNITION
- ARTIFACTS
- Machine-human hybrid
- Enhancement