Little cyborgs

Science, art and the critical thinking in the digital age

Dr. Éva Gyarmathy

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

„I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein

Our predigital fossils

The rapid changes will cease

Overtechnologization can be avoided

Our children can’t process the lot information

Our children are wrong when rely so much on the technology

Reading and writing is the base of the human culture

„……we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at

today’s rate).”

Ray Kurzweil: The Law of Accelerating Returns, http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-

accelerating-returns, 2001.

„Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly

after, the human era will be ended.”

Vernor Vinge at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and

the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993

KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION

KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION

Bloom’s taxonomy

KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION

BEFORE THE

LITERAL ERA

IN THE

LITERAL ERA

IN THE

DIGITAL ERA

holistic sequential holistic-sequential

Toward the network thinking

KNOWLEDGE COMPREHENSION APPLICATION ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS EVALUATION

BEFORE THE

LITERAL ERA

IN THE

LITERAL ERA

IN THE

DIGITAL ERA

holistic sequential holistic-sequential

Different ways of thinking

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

Left Right

global

parallel

visual

Speech

Reading

Writing

Counting

Logic

Analysis

Relations

Parts

Visuality

Spatial

abilities

Imagination

Musicality

Emotions

Humor

Moving

Whole

analitical

sequential

verbal

Three types of information processing

KNOWLEDGE

COMPREHENSION

APPLICATION SYNTHESIS

ANALYSIS EVALUATION

Different ways of thinking

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

COMPREHENSION

SYNTHESIS

ANALYSIS EVALUATION

NEW TYPE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING

LITERACY

Logical thinkingDetails

Facts, relationsWords, language

Knowledge, scienceRecognition

Systematic thinkingKnowing the name of things

Thinking in realityActing

StrategySequentiality

AUDIO-VISUALITY

Feelings, intuitionSeeing as a whole

Imagination, patternsSymbols, imagesPhilosophy, art

BeliefsSpatial-visual thinking

Knowing how things workFantasy

Recognising possibilitiesTaking risksSimultaneity

Systematic thinking

Strategy

Fantasy

Spatial-visual thinking

SYNTHESIS

EVALUATION

Critical thinking

Strategical + Creative thinking

The information is available, now the key is to choose and decide wisely.

Technology necessitates and enables the changes.

http://www.diszlexia.hu/English.html

gyarmathy.eva@gmail.com

Stanisław Lem

Isaac Asimov

Terminator

Matrix

Gyarmathy Éva (2013) Diszlexia, a tanulás/tanítási és a tudományok a digitális kultúrában. Egy tranziens korszak dilemmái. Magyar Tudomány, 9. 1086-94.