Re: The Web Is Making People Stupid (TWIMPS)

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TWIMPS.  Note 2

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Peircers,

I thought I was hearing the rumblings of a counterpoint to the
more positive themes of the AI/IA thread, the slow reading of
Joseph Ransdell's paper, "The Relevance Of Peircean Semiotic
To Computational Intelligence Augmentation".

• http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/aboutcsp/ransdell/ia.htm

Since those undertones arising from the flip-side of augmentative communication
and intelligence augmentation are long familiar to me, I reprised an old title
from previous discussions where a number of us puzzled over the phenomenon of
intellectual devolutions that appeared to be caused, or maybe just catalyzed,
by the very media of information technology that were aimed to aid thought.

Now, if you've never had the "luck" to encounter such phenomena yourself,
then I'm sure you're thinking that I'm just whinging about imaginary ills.
But if you've ever run up against similar obstacles in your own experience,
then you'll know why we have to tackle the obstructions before we can get on
to the opportunities.

Regards,

Jon

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