Theoretical Issues of Humanistic Intelligence: From Postmodernism to Pastmodernism in the Cyborg Age of Metaphysical Computing

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• ISEA98: Ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Theoretical Issues of Humanistic Intelligence: From Postmodernism to Pastmodernism in the Cyborg Age of Metaphysical Computing

• Steve Mann

• Humanistic Intelligence (HI) is a new field of research that challenges the notion that machines such as cameras should emulate human thought. Instead, HI asserts that humans and machines should be inextricably intertwined in a single synergistic unit where the “intelligence” arises directly because of the human in the feedback loop of some (e.g. photographic) decision-making process as described in hi.eecg.toronto.edu/hi.html

  Connected Collective Humanistic Intelligence emerges as a new kind of intelligence when multiple humans are in the feedback loop of this process. CCHI challenges J.G. Ballard’s notion that we must choose between social interaction and machine interaction, for it transforms the cyborg entity into part of a community. Moreover CCHI facilitates intimacy and close synergy among individuals separated by vast distances. Most importantly, however, is the ability of the individual or the collective to re-assert itself in the face of hegemonic forces otherwise stripping us of our dignity and humanistic property.

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