sherry turkle, Life on the Screen： identity in the Age of the Internet (1995)
David Porush The soft machine: Cybernetic Fiction
Authur Kroker Hacking the Future： Stories for the flesh-eating 90s 1996
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my mother was a computer N Katherine Hayles
The Regime of computation
p17 "Computation" in the sense ... connotes far more than the digital computer, which is only one of many platforms on which computational operations can run....p18 The computational regime continues in the tradition of Turing's work by considering computation to be a process that starts with a parsimonious set of elements and a relatively small set of logical operations. Instantiated into some kind of platform, these components can be structured so as to build up increasing levels of complexity, eventually arriving at complexity so deep, multilayered, and extensive as to simulate the most complex phenomena on earth, from turbulent flow and multiagent social systerms to reasoning processes one might legitimately call thinking.
p25 "emergence".. refers to properties that do not inhere in the individual components of a system; rather, these properties come about from interactions between components. Emergent properties thus appear at the global level of the system itself rather than at the local level of a system's components.
p28 The central problem of achiving emergence through more than one level is bound up tightly with issues of representation. As Nicholas Gessler, among others, has pointed out, one way to think about this process is to imagine a mechanism whereby the patterns that emerged at the first level are represented by a different kind of mechanism, which then uses these representations as primitive to create new emergent patterns, which in turn would undergo further re-representation and be turned into primitives for the third level, and so on.
p31 An important aspect of intermediation is the recursivity implicit in the coproduction and coevolution of multiple causalities. Complex feedback loops connect humans and machines, old technologies and new, language and code, analog processes and digital fragmentations. Although these feedback loops evolve over time and thus have a historical trajectory that arcs from one point to another, it is important not to make the mistake of privileging any one point as the primary locus of attention, which could easily result in flattening complex interactions back to linear casual chains. The contemporary indoctrination into linear causality is so strong that it continues to exercise a fatal attraction for much of contemporary thought. It must be continually resisted if we are fully to realize the implications of multicausal and multilayered hierarchical systems, which entail distributed agency, emergent processes, unpredictable coevolutions, and seemingly paradoxical interactions between convergent and divergent processes.
Gessler, Nicholas, "Evolving Artificial Cultural things- that-think and work by dynamical Hierarchical synthesis"
Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature 1997
McGann, Jerome J. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the world wide Web 2001
p17 "Computation" in the sense ... connotes far more than the digital computer, which is only one of many platforms on which computational operations can run....p18 The computational regime continues in the tradition of Turing's work by considering computation to be a process that starts with a parsimonious set of elements and a relatively small set of logical operations. Instantiated into some kind of platform, these components can be structured so as to build up increasing levels of complexity, eventually arriving at complexity so deep, multilayered, and extensive as to simulate the most complex phenomena on earth, from turbulent flow and multiagent social systerms to reasoning processes one might legitimately call thinking.
p25 "emergence".. refers to properties that do not inhere in the individual components of a system; rather, these properties come about from interactions between components. Emergent properties thus appear at the global level of the system itself rather than at the local level of a system's components.
p28 The central problem of achiving emergence through more than one level is bound up tightly with issues of representation. As Nicholas Gessler, among others, has pointed out, one way to think about this process is to imagine a mechanism whereby the patterns that emerged at the first level are represented by a different kind of mechanism, which then uses these representations as primitive to create new emergent patterns, which in turn would undergo further re-representation and be turned into primitives for the third level, and so on.
p31 An important aspect of intermediation is the recursivity implicit in the coproduction and coevolution of multiple causalities. Complex feedback loops connect humans and machines, old technologies and new, language and code, analog processes and digital fragmentations. Although these feedback loops evolve over time and thus have a historical trajectory that arcs from one point to another, it is important not to make the mistake of privileging any one point as the primary locus of attention, which could easily result in flattening complex interactions back to linear casual chains. The contemporary indoctrination into linear causality is so strong that it continues to exercise a fatal attraction for much of contemporary thought. It must be continually resisted if we are fully to realize the implications of multicausal and multilayered hierarchical systems, which entail distributed agency, emergent processes, unpredictable coevolutions, and seemingly paradoxical interactions between convergent and divergent processes.
Gessler, Nicholas, "Evolving Artificial Cultural things- that-think and work by dynamical Hierarchical synthesis"
Aarseth, Espen J. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature 1997
McGann, Jerome J. Radiant Textuality: Literature after the world wide Web 2001
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