Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. General Introduction -- 1.1. The vision: to enhance cognitive processes -- 1.1.1. The semantic imperative -- 1.1.2. The ethical imperative -- 1.1.3. The technical imperative -- 1.2. A transdisciplinary intellectual adventure -- 1.2.1. The years of training, 1975-1992 -- 1.2.2. The years of conception 1992-2002 -- 1.2.3. The years of gestation, 2002-2010 -- 1.3. The result: toward hypercortical cognition -- 1.3.1. A system of coordinates -- 1.3.2. An information economy -- 1.3.3. A Hypercortex to contribute to cognitive augmentation -- 1.4. General plan of this book -- PART 1. THE PILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Information -- 2.1. Orientation -- 2.2. The information paradigm -- 2.2.1. Information and symbolic systems -- 2.2.2. The sources of the information paradigm -- 2.2.3. Information between form and difference -- 2.2.4. Information and time -- 2.3. Layers of encoding -- 2.3.1. A layered structure -- 2.3.2. The physicochemical and organic layers -- 2.3.3. The phenomenal layer -- 2.3.4. The symbolic layer -- 2.3.5. A synthetic view of the layers of information -- 2.4. Evolution in information nature -- 2.5. The unity of nature -- 2.5.1. Natural information and cultural information -- 2.5.2. Nature as a "great symbol" -- Chapter 3. Symbolic Cognition -- 3.1. Delimitation of the field of symbolic cognition -- 3.1.1. Singularity -- 3.1.2. Social and technical dimensions -- 3.1.3. Symbolic manipulation goes far beyond linguistic competence and "reason" -- 3.2. The secondary reflexivity of symbolic cognition -- 3.2.1. The primary reflexivity of phenomenal consciousness -- 3.2.2. The secondary reflexivity of discursive consciousness -- 3.3. Symbolic power and its manifestations.

3.4. The reciprocal enveloping of the phenomenal world and semantic world -- 3.5. The open intelligence of culture -- 3.6. Differences between animal and human collective intelligence -- Chapter 4. Creative Conversation -- 4.1. Beyond "collective stupidity" -- 4.2. Reflexive explication and sharing of knowledge -- 4.2.1. Personal and social knowledge management -- 4.2.2. The role of explication in social knowledge management -- 4.2.3. Dialectic of memory and creative conversation -- 4.3. The symbolic medium of creative conversation -- 4.3.1. The question of the symbolic medium -- 4.3.2. The metalinguistic articulation of organized memory -- 4.3.3. How can creative conversation organize digital memory? -- Chapter 5. Toward an Epistemological Transformation of the Human Sciences -- 5.1. The stakes of human development -- 5.1.1. The scope of human development -- 5.1.2. In search of models of human development -- 5.1.3. Social capital and human development -- 5.1.4. The knowledge society and human development: a six-pole model -- 5.2. Critique of the human sciences -- 5.2.1. Human sciences and natural sciences -- 5.2.2. Internal fragmentation -- 5.2.3. Methodological weaknesses -- 5.2.4. Lack of coordination -- 5.3. The threefold renewal of the human sciences -- 5.3.1. New possibilities for collaboration -- 5.3.2. New possibilities for observation, memory and calculation -- 5.3.3. Toward a system of semantic coordinates -- 5.4. The Ouroboros -- Chapter 6. The Information Economy -- 6.1. The symbiosis of knowledge capital and cognitive labor -- 6.1.1. The genealogy of capital -- 6.1.2. The commons: the interdependence of human populations, ecosystems of ideas and biological ecosystems -- 6.2. Toward scientific self-management of collective intelligence -- 6.2.1. Political economy and collective intelligence.

6.2.2. The autopoiesis of collective intelligence -- 6.3. Flows of symbolic energy -- 6.3.1. The problem of the general equivalent -- 6.3.2. The power of mana -- 6.3.3. The complete circuit of information -- 6.4. Ecosystems of ideas and the semantic information economy -- 6.4.1. An "eco" paradigm for thinking about semantic information -- 6.4.2. Ecosystems of ideas in epistemology -- 6.4.3. General characteristics of ecosystems of ideas -- 6.5. The semantic information economy in the digital medium -- 6.5.1. The prophets of media and the "global brain" -- 6.5.2. Semantic information economy and the commons in the digital medium -- PART 2. MODELING COGNITION -- Chapter 7. Introduction to the Scientific Knowledge of the Mind -- 7.1. Research program -- 7.1.1. Profession of pragmatic faith -- 7.1.2. Initial questions -- 7.1.3. Instruments -- 7.1.4. Subject-object -- 7.1.5. Method and result -- 7.2. The mind in nature -- 7.2.1. The uni-duality of communication nature -- 7.2.2. The uni-ternarity of communication nature -- 7.3. The three symbolic functions of the cortex -- 7.3.1. The syntactic function -- 7.3.2. The semantic function -- 7.3.3. The pragmatic function -- 7.3.4. The sign (S)/being (B)/thing (T) dialectic of symbolic cognition -- 7.4. The IEML model of symbolic cognition -- 7.4.1. The semantic sphere: the mathematical basis of the IEML model of the mind -- 7.4.2. The Cortex, the Hypercortex and the semantic sphere -- 7.4.3. The Cortex, the Hypercortex and the mind -- 7.4.4. General structure of the IEML model -- 7.4.5. IEML as machine: formal properties -- 7.4.6. IEML as metalanguage: semantic properties -- 7.4.7. IEML as a universe of games: pragmatic properties -- 7.5. The architecture of the Hypercortex -- 7.5.1. The Internet -- 7.5.2. The IEML semantic sphere -- 7.5.3. Interdependence of the semantic sphere and the Internet.

7.5.4. New perspectives in computer science and the human sciences -- 7.6. Overview: toward a reflexive collective intelligence -- Chapter 8. The Computer Science Perspective: Toward a Reflexive Intelligence -- 8.1. Augmented collective intelligence -- 8.1.1. A new field of research -- 8.1.2. A direction for cultural evolution in the long term -- 8.2. The purpose of automatic manipulation of symbols: cognitive modeling and self-knowledge -- 8.2.1. Substitution or augmentation? -- 8.2.2. Modeling of separate or connected intelligences? -- 8.2.3. Conscious machines or machines that mirror collective cognition? -- 8.3. The means of automatic manipulation of symbols: beyond probabilities and logic -- 8.3.1. Exploration of graphs -- 8.3.2. Limitations of statistics -- 8.3.3. Limitations of logic -- 8.3.4. Symbolic cognition cannot be modeled without full recognition of the interdependence in which it originates -- Chapter 9. General Presentation of the IEML Semantic Sphere -- 9.1. Ideas -- 9.1.1. Internal structure -- 9.1.2. Production of ideas -- 9.1.3. Networks of ideas -- 9.2. Concepts -- 9.2.1. A concept reflects a category in a symbol -- 9.2.2. A concept interconnects concepts -- 9.2.3. The IEML model of the concept -- 9.2.4. Addressing of ideas by concepts -- 9.3. Unity and calculability -- 9.3.1. Functional calculability -- 9.3.2. The unity of the mind -- 9.3.3. Requirements of calculability for a system of semantic coordinates -- 9.4. Symmetry -- 9.4.1. Unity and symmetry -- 9.4.2. Graph theory and the human sciences -- 9.4.3. Group theory and the human sciences -- 9.5. Internal coherence -- 9.5.1. The mathematical formalization of concepts is a methodological necessity -- 9.5.2. The identification code for concepts cannot be based directly on empirical data -- 9.5.3. Concepts can only be distinguished through their mutual relationships.

9.6. Inexhaustible complexity -- 9.6.1. The inexhaustible complexity of the mind -- 9.6.2. The unlimited variety of concepts and their transformations -- 9.6.3. The unlimited size of concepts -- Chapter 10. The IEML Metalanguage -- 10.1. The problem of encoding concepts -- 10.2. Text units -- 10.2.1. The layers of text units -- 10.2.2. Classes of text units -- 10.2.3. The roles of text units -- 10.3. Circuits of meaning -- 10.3.1. Langue and parole -- 10.3.2. Paradigmatic circuits -- 10.3.3. Syntagmatic circuits -- 10.4. Between text and circuits -- 10.4.1. What is meaning? -- 10.4.2. Correspondences between chains of signifiers and circuits of signifieds: the natural semantic machine -- 10.4.3. The independence of the textual and conceptual machines -- 10.4.4. The interdependence of textual and conceptual machines -- Chapter 11. The IEML Semantic Machine -- 11.1. Overview of the functions involved in symbolic cognition -- 11.1.1. Arithmetic and logical functions -- 11.1.2. Hermeneutic functions -- 11.1.3. Natural semantic functions -- 11.2. Requirements for the construction of the IEML semantic machine -- 11.2.1. Concepts must be encoded in IEML as semantic networks -- 11.2.2. The conceptual, textual and linguistic functions of the IEML semantic machine must be inseparable -- 11.2.3. Concepts encoded in IEML must be variables of a transformation group -- 11.2.4. Concepts encoded in IEML must be automatically translated into natural languages -- 11.3. The IEML textual machine (S) -- 11.3.1. Introduction to the textual machine -- 11.3.2. The mathematical properties of IEML -- 11.4. The STAR (Semantic Tool for Augmented Reasoning) linguistic engine (B) -- 11.4.1. Introduction to the linguistic function -- 11.4.2. Metalanguage -- 11.4.3. Rules for the construction of circuits -- 11.4.4. The dictionary -- 11.4.5. The STAR dialect.

11.4.6. From USL to semantic circuit.