Augmented Humanity : Being and Remaining Agentic in a Digitalized World.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Augmented Humanity
- Preface
- New Problematics
- About This Book
- Opportunities and Risks
- Reading This Book
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- 1: Modeling Augmented Humanity
- Historical Patterns
- Dilemmas of Technological Assistance
- Supervisory Challenges
- Period of Digitalization
- Adaptive Challenges
- New Problematics
- 1.1 Theories of Agency
- Persons in Context
- Capability and Potentiality
- Limits of Capabilities
- Impact of Digitalization
- 1.2 Metamodels of Agency
- Compositive Methods
- 1.3 Dimensions of Metamodeling
- Parameters and Variables
- The Role of Consciousness
- Critical Dilemmas
- References
- 2: Historical Metamodels of Agency
- 2.1 Major Historical Periods
- Replicative Metamodels of Agency
- The Modern Period
- Modern Adaptive Metamodels
- The Period of Digital Augmentation
- Generative Metamodels
- 2.2 Agentic Activation Mechanisms
- Augmented In-Betweenness
- Entrogenous In-Betweenness
- Summary of Metamodels
- 2.3 Dilemmas of Digital Augmentation
- Problematics and Metamodels
- 2.4 Patterns of Supervision
- 2.5 Implications for Augmented Humanity
- Implications for Specific Domains
- Reality and Truth
- Value and Commitment
- References
- 3: Agentic Modality
- 3.1 Mediators of Agentic Modality
- Issues of Combination and Choice
- 3.2 Impact of Digitalization
- Persistent Limitations
- Dilemmas of Agentic Modality
- Ambimodality
- 3.3 Patterns of Ambimodality
- Low Ambimodality
- High Ambimodality
- 3.4 Wider Implications
- Agentic Ambimodality
- Problems of Aggregation
- Implications for Institutions
- References
- 4: Problem-Solving
- Historical Developments
- Contemporary Digitalization
- 4.1 Metamodels of Problem-Solving
- 4.2 Dilemmas of Digital Augmentation.
- Risk of Farsighted Processing
- Dilemmas of Hyperopia
- Myopia with Hyperopia
- Summary of Digitalized Problem-Solving
- 4.3 Illustrative Metamodels
- Highly Ambiopic Metamodels
- Non-ambiopic Augmented Metamodels
- Moderately Ambiopic Augmented Metamodels
- 4.4 Implications for Problem-Solving
- Myopia, Hyperopia, and Ambiopia
- Bounded and Unbounded
- Extended, Ecological Rationality
- Culture and Collectivity
- References
- 5: Cognitive Empathy
- 5.1 Theories of Cognitive Empathy
- Psychology of Cognitive Empathy
- Empathic Satisficing
- Practical Empathicing
- Empathizing and Discrepancy
- Digitalization of Cognitive Empathizing
- Summary of Augmented Cognitive Empathizing
- 5.2 Metamodels of Cognitive Empathizing
- Highly Ambiopic Empathizing
- Non-ambiopic Empathizing
- Summary of Cognitive Empathizing
- 5.3 Wider Implications
- The Understanding of Other Minds
- Empathy for Commitments
- Future Investigations
- References
- 6: Self-Regulation
- Social Cognitive Perspectives
- Rate and Complexity
- Impact of Digital Augmentation
- Self-Regulatory Dilemmas
- Ambiactive Self-Regulation
- Metamodels of Self-Regulation
- 6.1 Dilemmas of Self-Regulation
- Self-Regulatory Processing Rates
- Self-Regulatory Schemes
- 6.2 Illustrations of Augmented Self-Regulation
- Highly Ambiactive Self-Regulation
- Combined Ambiactive Metamodels
- Non-ambiactive Self-Regulation
- 6.3 Wider Implications
- Engagement and Responsibility
- Procedural Action
- The Regulating Self
- References
- 7: Evaluation of Performance
- Problematics of Evaluation
- Impact of Digitalization
- 7.1 Theoretical Perspectives
- Evaluation of Individual Performance
- Evaluation of Collective Performance
- 7.2 Impact of Digitalization
- Complexity of Evaluation
- Rates of Evaluation
- Summary of Augmented Evaluation.
- 7.3 Metamodels of Evaluation
- Overall Downregulated Processes
- Overall Upregulated Processes
- Upregulated Artificial Processes
- Upregulated Human Processes
- Summary of Augmented Evaluation of Performance
- 7.4 Implications for Other Fields
- Augmented Performance
- The Nature of Evaluation
- Implications for Collectives
- References
- 8: Learning
- 8.1 Theories of Learning
- Historical Debates
- Levels of Learning
- Procedural Learning
- 8.2 Digitally Augmented Learning
- Ambiactive Learning
- Summary of Learning by Augmented Agents
- 8.3 Illustrative Metamodels of Learning
- Lowly Ambiactive Modern Learning
- Highly Ambiactive Augmented Learning
- Lowly Ambiactive Augmented Learning
- 8.4 Wider Implications
- Divergent Capabilities
- Problematics of Learning
- References
- 9: Self-Generation
- 9.1 Self-Generative Dilemmas
- Sources of Disturbance
- Digital Augmentation of Self-Generation
- Dilemmas of Augmentation
- Summary of Augmented Self-Generation
- 9.2 Illustrations of Self-Generation
- Self-Generation in Modernity
- Divergent Augmented Self-Generation
- Convergent Augmented Self-Generation
- 9.3 Implications for Human Flourishing
- Self-Generative Risks
- Social and Behavioral Theories
- References
- 10: Toward a Science of Augmented Agency
- 10.1 Science of Augmented Agency
- Dilemmas of Digital Augmentation
- 10.2 Hyperparameters of Future Science
- Ontological Principles
- Epistemological Principles
- Mechanisms of Adaptation and Change
- 10.3 Domains of Augmented Science
- Science of Consciousness
- Generative Commitments
- Science and History
- Research Methods
- Future Prospect
- References
- Glossary of Defined Terms
- Index.