Our response is no. As Penny mentions, machines have imposed capacities and are made to think logically (e.g. chess game) rather than cognitively. In fact, biological cognition is made to perform in a world without rules. It relies on more than mathematical interpretation, but on embodied experience, which machines obviously don’t have. Viewing the brain as a computer (and vice versa) originated from a wrongful attempt at defining intelligence, even though it was considered as information and symbolic representation that happens in one's head or a computer (cognitivism). Just like Mitchell suggested in “Image”, cognition (or the interpretation of images by the mind) is a sensuous experience. Both Mitchell and Penny claim that recent performances by digital media help raise awareness of this embodiment. Where Penny really closes the case is when he brings the Western worldview. With the concept imbedded with dualities (mind/body, subject/object, physical/immaterial) that veil the qualities of selfhood, computational devices were discard of these dualities due to their incapability to imitate common sense.
Monday, February 11, 2019
Week 5 : Confused Coffee Beans - "Making Sense" by Simon Penny
“Making Sense” of Simon Penny really exploits the concept of mass production in the era of computational devices and technologies. If there is one point we can all approve is the fact that capitalism has a massive impact on the crystallisation of these technologies, for example, Apple, who is just abusing of the IPhone users. However, this has participated to the development of the accessibility towards the use of computational devices around the world, which gained a humongous amount of popularity, especially for multimedia or interactive purposes. This is why Penny’s reflexion is so important to consider : Can we compare the human’s brain to machines?
Our response is no. As Penny mentions, machines have imposed capacities and are made to think logically (e.g. chess game) rather than cognitively. In fact, biological cognition is made to perform in a world without rules. It relies on more than mathematical interpretation, but on embodied experience, which machines obviously don’t have. Viewing the brain as a computer (and vice versa) originated from a wrongful attempt at defining intelligence, even though it was considered as information and symbolic representation that happens in one's head or a computer (cognitivism). Just like Mitchell suggested in “Image”, cognition (or the interpretation of images by the mind) is a sensuous experience. Both Mitchell and Penny claim that recent performances by digital media help raise awareness of this embodiment. Where Penny really closes the case is when he brings the Western worldview. With the concept imbedded with dualities (mind/body, subject/object, physical/immaterial) that veil the qualities of selfhood, computational devices were discard of these dualities due to their incapability to imitate common sense.
Dana Ryashy, Sol Paul, Xavier Champoux, Rose-Marie Dion
Our response is no. As Penny mentions, machines have imposed capacities and are made to think logically (e.g. chess game) rather than cognitively. In fact, biological cognition is made to perform in a world without rules. It relies on more than mathematical interpretation, but on embodied experience, which machines obviously don’t have. Viewing the brain as a computer (and vice versa) originated from a wrongful attempt at defining intelligence, even though it was considered as information and symbolic representation that happens in one's head or a computer (cognitivism). Just like Mitchell suggested in “Image”, cognition (or the interpretation of images by the mind) is a sensuous experience. Both Mitchell and Penny claim that recent performances by digital media help raise awareness of this embodiment. Where Penny really closes the case is when he brings the Western worldview. With the concept imbedded with dualities (mind/body, subject/object, physical/immaterial) that veil the qualities of selfhood, computational devices were discard of these dualities due to their incapability to imitate common sense.
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