World Scientific Publishing Company Human Enactment Of Intelligent Technologies: Towards Metis And Mindfulness

This book demystifies what artificial intelligence is, examines its strength and limitations in comparison to what humans are capable of, and investigates the nature of human adaptive expertise across the concept of mètis. It also examines a particular family of mindsets that we as humans have adopted over the ages, namely epistemologies of representational knowledge. These representational perspectives have followed us into numerous fields, including how we perceive and comprehend human cognition — leading to 'with a hammer everything looks like a nail' syndrome. As such, this book presents the alternative phenomenological viewpoint of embodied direct reality within the cognitive sciences in the form of radical embodied cognition and, more importantly, how it allows us to better highlight and comprehend human mètis and its adaptive expertise. We then examine why we collectively continue to enact and perpetuate predominant mindsets of representations across the phenomena of mindlessness. To counter this, we re-visit the practice of individual and collective mindfulness, providing a potential 'beachhead' in our re-appropriation of technology (artificial intelligence) towards achieving the best of both worlds — that is, allowing human creativity and ingenuity to be expressed with artificial intelligence as a tool to help us do just that across meaningful human control. Finally, we conclude by examining current top-of-the-horizon activities and debates regarding quantum physics in relation to the human mind and artificial intelligence and how, once again, representational mindsets need not be the only tool in town. Review <p><i>"There is non-communicable knowledge ― and a manager, engineer, or medical specialist should know when and why it happens. As David Holford writes in his book (p. 71): '/ ... /cognition depends constitutively on the living body, understood as an autonomous system. The basic idea is that cognition should not be understood as a capacity for deriving world-models, which might then provide a database for thinking, planning and problem-solving. Rather, cognitive processes are viewed as being closely entwined with action, and as such, have the capacity of generating structure, i.e. of 'enacting' a world. In summary, a paradigmatic book!"</i><br></p> --<p><i>Albert Lejeune, PhD<br>Cognitive Informatics, PhD Business Administration<br>Director of the Cognitive Science Institute<br>Human Sciences Faculty, UQAM</i><br></p> <p><i>"In my opinion, the book proposed by W David Holford ― Human Enactment of Intelligent Technologies ― will find a captivated audience. David Holford situates intelligent technologies with the most relevant philosophers on the subject, while at the same time demonstrating his keen knowledge of AI.<br><br>... To reach this aim, he discusses the role of mètis thought and behaviour first brought forward by the ancient Greeks ... It is a cunning form of intelligence which eludes explicit formulation, conceptual analysis, or theoretical exposition. Mètis is an embodied power which opens the way towards a beneficial solution. Thus, David Holford highlights situational intelligence, the question of framing and relevance, and finally, addresses in a particularly right way, the question of representation.In this manner, he manages to inquire into creation and the creation of novelty, as Cornelius Castoriadis did in his time. I am very happy that such a book could be produced."</i><br></p> --<p><i>Claude Paraponaris<br>Professor of Innovation Management<br>Aix Marseille University</i><br></p> About the Author <p><strong>W David Holford</strong>, PhD, P Eng. is a professional engineer and Professor of Management at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. He has published articles in several prominent journals including the<em> Journal of Business Ethics</em>, <em>Journal of Knowledge Management</em>, <em>Knowledge Management Research & Practice</em>, <em>Futures</em>, and