Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Consciousness’ DriveCondition: NewEAN: 9783319924557ISBN: 9783319924557Edition: 1st ed. 2018Publisher: Springer International Publishing AGFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/04/2018Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmAuthor: Charles ColeLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Information Need and the Search for MeaningDescription: What is the uniquely human factor in finding and using information to produce new knowledge? Is there an underlying aspect of our thinking that cannot be imitated by the AI-equipped machines that will increasingly dominate our lives? This book answers these questions, and tells us about our consciousness – its drive or intention in seeking information in the world around us, and how we are able to construct new knowledge from this information. The book is divided into three parts, each with an introduction and a conclusion that relate the theories and models presented to the real-world experience of someone using a search engine. First, Part I defines the exceptionality of human consciousness and its need for new information and how, uniquely among all other species, we frame our interactions with the world. Part II then investigates the problem of finding our real information need during information searches, and how our exceptional ability to frameour interactions with the world blocks us from finding the information we really need. Lastly, Part III details the solution to this framing problem and its operational implications for search engine design for everyone whose objective is the production of new knowledge.In this book, Charles Cole deliberately writes in a conversational style for a broader readership, keeping references to research material to the bare minimum. Replicating the structure of a detective novel, he builds his arguments towards a climax at the end of the book. For our video-game, video-on-demand times, he has visualized the ideas that form the book’s thesis in over 90 original diagrams. And above all, he establishes a link between information need and knowledge production in evolutionary psychology, and thus bases his arguments in our origins as a species: how we humans naturally think, and how we naturally search for new information because our consciousness drives us to need it.Country/Region of Manufacture: CHGenre: Computing & InternetTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Consciousness’ Drive
Title: The Consciousness’ Drive
EAN: 9783319924557
ISBN: 9783319924557
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Release Date: 10/04/2018
Release Year: 2018
Item Height: 235mm
Subtitle: Information Need and the Search for Meaning
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Genre: Computing & Internet
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: X, 247 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Consciousness' Drive : Information Need and the Search for Meaning
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Publication Year: 2018
Subject: Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Social Aspects / General, Library & Information Science / General, System Administration / Storage & Retrieval, Social Aspects / Human-Computer Interaction
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Charles Cole
Subject Area: Computers, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
