Table of Contents
Chapter 1. General Introduction
1.1. The vision: to enhance cognitive processes
1.2. A transdisciplinary intellectual adventure
1.3. The result: toward hypercortical cognition
1.4. General plan of this book
PART 1 The Philosophy of Information
Chapter 2. The Nature of Information
2.4. Evolution in information nature
3.1. Delimitation of the field of symbolic cognition
3.2. The secondary reflexivity of symbolic cognition
3.3. Symbolic power and its manifestations
3.4. The reciprocal enveloping of the phenomenal world and semantic world
3.5. The open intelligence of culture
3.6. Differences between animal and human collective intelligence
Chapter 4. Creative Conversation
4.1. Beyond “collective stupidity”
4.2. Reflexive explication and sharing of knowledge
4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation
Chapter 5. Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences
5.1. The stakes of human development
5.2. Critique of the human sciences
5.3. The threefold renewal of the human sciences
Chapter 6. The Information Economy
6.1. The symbiosis of knowledge capital and cognitive labor
6.2. Toward scientific self-management of collective intelligence
6.4. Ecosystems of ideas and the semantic information economy
6.5. The semantic information economy in the digital medium ...
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