The Extended Cognitive Systems and Telepistemology. On the Basic of Ken Goldberg’s book The Robot in the Garden. Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of Internet Cover Image

Rozszerzone systemy poznawcze i teleepistemologia. Na kanwie lektury książki Kena Goldberga „The Robot in the Garden. Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of Internet”
The Extended Cognitive Systems and Telepistemology. On the Basic of Ken Goldberg’s book The Robot in the Garden. Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of Internet

Author(s): Józef Dębowski
Subject(s): Review, Epistemology, Theory of Literature, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: epistemology; telepistemology; cognition; cognition at a distance; real reality; virtual reality; Matrix; extended cognitive systems;

Summary/Abstract: Most of the analysis and themes in this article were inspired by Ken Goldberg’s book The Robot in the Garden… (Ken Goldberg (ed.), Robot in the Garden. Telerobotics and Telepistemology in the Age of Internet, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2001). This concerns in particular the various extensions of the human cognitive system, the possibility and fact of cognition at a distance, and the new philosophical subdiscipline, which is teleepistemology nowadays. The main theme, however, is older, more fundamental, and independent of Goldberg and the Telegarden experiment he describes. It is the fear of the era of universal, interactive hallucination – the fear of escape from the real world towards various virtual environments, the fear of full immersion into the world of the Matrix. It is for this reason that, for several decades, I have been looking for better and better definitions of source cognition, and the issue of the sourceness and limits of source knowledge, invariably, is in my opinion the greatest challenge of any epistemology: in every its variation and at every stage of its development.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 7-24
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish
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