Communicative patterns and cognitive architectures Csaba Plh

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Communicative patterns and cognitive
architectures Csaba Pléh

• The concept of mental architecture
• Biological and cultural architectures
• The issue of variability and relativism in
  architectures
• Representational revolutions and information
  technologies

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The concept of architecture

• Relatively stable arrangements
• Provide for the scaffolding of thought
• Are formed slowly AND change slowly
• Formats of representation
• propositions, images, skills
• Temporal characteristics
• Internal organizations

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Original and new architectures

• Cultural, modern
• Unconstrained
• Flexible
• Slow (min, hours)

• Ancient, orginal
• Evolved, constrained
• Fixed
• Fast (ms, sec)

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External and internal model of man

• Centrifugal
• Socialization
• Interiorization
• Relativism
• Tools lead

• Centripetal
• Innate structure
• Thought expression
• Universalism
• Tools our slaves

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Temporal scale of human architectures according
to Newell (1989)
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Three visions of the modifiability of
architectures (Michael Cole)
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Great architectural changes (Donald, 1991, 2001)
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New patterns in present knowledge carriers

• Traditional
• decades learning
• slow access
• knowledge property
• certainty is a virtue

• Networked
• less schooling
• faster access
• shared knowledge
• certainty is qustinable

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Implications of the theory of Donald

• Continuity of change fom biology to culture
• Representation and communication change
  together
• New architectures emulating biology
• What is the status of present changes?

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Temporal and spatial dynamics and mobil
communication

• Classical world
• man on stable place, info moves here
• displacement for source
• construct the model of receiver

• Mobil world
• man on moving location, with stable
  accessibility
• temporal displacement at reception (message)
• spatial displacement at reception (mobile)
• construct flexible model of the receiver

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Some new challenges in IT

•  External annd internal determination
• Initiative and passivity
• Don Quijote today Real world and communication
• Emotional time the issue of time managment
• Knowledge, image, and skill
• Personal and impersonal in knowledge  

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Initiation and passivity Two types of usage (FA
from a study by Krajcsi, Kovács, and Pléh)

• 1.Browsing-information
• Browsing in general 0,85
• Browsing information 0,81
• Browsing entertainment 0,71
• 2. Mail-communication
• Email known person 0,91
• Email 0,88
• 3.Entertain-dependency
• Chat 0,81
• Email unknown person 0,76

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Temporal structuring of communication

• The perceived reception is higher
• Email is leading the show during the day

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Subjective judgement of different attributes of
the media

• Face-to-face is the best
• Chat is unreliable
• Phone and email is personal

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Possible consequences of communicative
accessibilty

• New conventions and temporal architectures
• New issues of personal reliabilty
• Classical oral reliability
• Written reliability impersonal, points of no
  return
• New media rescheduling is too cheap
• Needs for new etiquettes
• Emotional and instrumental codes