Seeing things: The human search for meaningful patterns and the media ecology of computer-generated text
Year: 2023
Type: preprint
Abstract: Human brains, by evolutionary design, find pattern and impute agency. Computer-generated texts have reached a level of complexity such that we experience them in everyday contexts without interrogating their way of coming to presence, raising concerns that echo critiques by both philosophers and media theorists. This study uses the lens of communication technology as an environment—what Marshall McLuhan called media ecology—to explore understanding and managing the implications of human interaction with such computer-generated texts.
Author: John G. McDaid
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6960297906