Cognitive Technologies Quotes

“As Krämer and Dutilh Novaes have elaborated, de decoupling of formal languages from any subject matter or content (desemantification) conditions the possibility of resemantification or 'applying a given formalism, which is developed against a specific background, to a different problem, phenomenon, or framework'. Accordingly, the systematic treatment of the formal - i.e. treating logical powers in terms of their own structure rather than their transitory experiential content or epistemic application - not only allows new contents to be structured and accessed (semantic enrichment), but also brings about a debiasing effect, in the sense that it strongly mitigates the perceptual biases of reasoning. It is the debiasing effect that makes of formal languages tools or cognitive technologies that enable the transition from the common-sense framework of understanding and knowing content to the scientific framework of epistemic inquiry.”
― Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit