IEML : from Social Computing to Reflexive Collective Intelligence
IEML-Levy.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Extraits choisis pour mémoire : " In cyberspace, for the first time in human history, our species is growing a universally interconnected common memory where ubiquitous data can be accessed and transformed by automatic symbol manipulators. my hypothesis is that the main developments into the full symbolic and cognitive exploitation of the global digital memory are still to come . As shown by recent R&D activity addressing the improvement of social tagging [15], or the construction of a "Web of data" organized by ontologies[19, 26], the augmentation of our collective categorization power is a key issue in the development of new symbolic systems. My main hypothesis is that natural languages, as well as notation systems invented before the 21st century, are not appropriate for the current and future scale of the social categorization process. They are not fit to exploit the new interconnected global digital memory and it