Cognition Beyond the Brain

Cognition Beyond the Brain

Stephen J. Cowley Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau Editors Cognition Beyond the Brain Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice Second Edition 123

Editors Stephen J. Cowley Department of Language and Communication University of Southern Denmark Slagelse Denmark Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau Department of Psychology Kingston University Kingston upon Thames UK ISBN 978-3-319-49114-1 ISBN 978-3-319-49115-8 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-49115-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016961336 1st edition: Springer-Verlag London 2013 2nd edition: Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Contents 1 Thinking, Values and Meaning in Changing Cognitive Ecologies... 1 Stephen J. Cowley and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau 2 Socially Distributed Cognition in Loosely Coupled Systems.... 19 Mark Perry 3 Distributed Cognition at the Crime Scene... 43 Chris Baber 4 Thinking with External Representations... 61 David Kirsh 5 Human Interactivity: Problem-Finding, Problem-Solving, and Verbal Patterns in the Wild... 85 Sune Vork Steffensen 6 Interactivity and Embodied Cues in Problem Solving, Learning and Insight: Further Contributions to a Theory of Hints... 115 Linden J. Ball and Damien Litchfield 7 Cognition Beyond the Classical Information Processing Model: Cognitive Interactivity and the Systemic Thinking Model (SysTM)... 133 Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau and Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau 8 Time During Time: Multi-scalar Temporal Cognition... 155 Jens Koed Madsen 9 Human Agency and the Resources of Reason... 175 Martin Neumann and Stephen J. Cowley v

vi Contents 10 Living as Languaging: Distributed Knowledge in Living Beings.... 193 Anton Markoš, Jana Švorcová and Josef Lhotský 11 Cognition and the City: Cognitive Ecology and the Paris Commune of 1871... 215 Alexander Aston 12 Computer-Mediated Trust in Self-interested Expert Recommendations... 233 Jonathan Ben-Naim, Jean-François Bonnefon, Andreas Herzig, Sylvie Leblois and Emiliano Lorini 13 The Cognitive Ecology of the Internet... 251 Paul Smart, Richard Heersmink and Robert W. Clowes 14 Models, Mathematics and Materials in Digital Architecture... 283 Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard and Lambros Malafouris 15 Organisational Cognition: A Critical Look at the Theories in Use... 305 Davide Secchi and Billy Adamsen Index... 333

Contributors Billy Adamsen Zealand Institute of Business and Technology, Slagelse, Denmark Alexander Aston School of Archeology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK Chris Baber Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England Linden J. Ball University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK Jonathan Ben-Naim CNRS and Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France Jean-François Bonnefon Toulouse School of Economics, Center for Research in Management, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Toulouse, France Robert W. Clowes Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Instituto de Filosofia da Nova, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Stephen J. Cowley Centre for Human Interactivity and the COMAC Cluster, University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark Richard Heersmink Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Andreas Herzig CNRS and Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France David Kirsh Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA Sylvie Leblois Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France Josef Lhotský Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic Damien Litchfield Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK Emiliano Lorini Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France vii

viii Contributors Jens Koed Madsen School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, England Lambros Malafouris Keble College and the Institute of Archeology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Anton Markoš Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic Martin Neumann Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany Mark Perry Department of Computer Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Davide Secchi COMAC Research Cluster, Centre for Human Interactivity (CHI), Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Slagelse, Denmark Paul Smart Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Sune Vork Steffensen Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Jana Švorcová Department of Philosophy and History of Science, Faculty of Science, Charles University Prague, Prague 2, Czech Republic Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Kingston University, Kingston, UK Gaëlle Vallée-Tourangeau Department of Management, Kingston Business School, Kingston University, Kingston, UK