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>Contemporary cognition: Computers, consciousness, and self-definition in cognitive science and late 20th century fiction (Richard Powers, Poul Anderson, Don DeLillo, Susan Daitch, Neal Stephenson).
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Contemporary cognition: Computers, consciousness, and self-definition in cognitive science and late 20th century fiction (Richard Powers, Poul Anderson, Don DeLillo, Susan Daitch, Neal Stephenson).
Cognitive science, a convergence of linguistics, computer science, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and anthropology, offers a set of concepts about mental function that create a useful framework for examining the presentation of mind in contemporary literature. This dissertation undertakes a survey of the descriptions of mind that arise from cognitive science and compares these descriptions to those found in five works of recent fiction: Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2, Poul Anderson's Harvest of Stars, Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, Susan Daitch's The Colorist, and Don DeLillo's White Noise.; A small number of literary scholars have begun working in the area of cognitive science, analyzing its theoretical discussions of language, subjectivity, and consciousness. This work discusses the main points raised by these scholars, demonstrating that they are working most predominately with general theories of language processing and linguistic frameworks. Cognitive science, however, also proposes structural models of mind arising from research in neurology and cognitive psychology. Much of its view of mind is historically based in a computational framework that shapes current definitions of mind to a great extent. The novels by Powers, Anderson, and Stephenson present views of the human mind that are informed by the computational metaphor. Each author uses computation as a comparative model to illuminate his own view of human nature.; Cognitive science further presents occasionally conflicting views of consciousness and self-definition that to a great extent reflect the instability, self-reflexivity, and self-doubt present in much of contemporary literature. The novels by Daitch and DeLillo reiterate this fact in their structure, theme, and characterization, demonstrating how self-definition suffers under the constant change in the characters' surroundings and the contamination of the original that makes up the landscape of contemporary culture.
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机译：认知科学是语言学，计算机科学，心理学，神经科学，心理哲学和人类学的融合，它提供了一系列有关心理功能的概念，这些概念为检查当代文学中的心理表现提供了有用的框架。本论文对认知科学产生的心智描述进行了调查，并将其与最近五部小说中发现的心智描述进行了比较：理查德·鲍尔斯的 Galatea 2.2 ，Poul Anderson的 Starvest < / italic>，尼尔·斯蒂芬森（Neal Stephenson）的，苏珊·达奇（Susan Daitch）的 The Colorist 和唐·德利洛（Don DeLillo）的 White Noise 。少数文学学者已开始在认知科学领域开展工作，分析其在语言，主观性和意识方面的理论讨论。这项工作讨论了这些学者提出的要点，表明他们最主要地使用语言处理和语言框架的一般理论。然而，认知科学还提出了由神经病学和认知心理学研究产生的心理结构模型。从历史上看，它的大部分心理观点基于一个计算框架，该框架在很大程度上塑造了当前的思维定义。鲍尔斯，安德森和斯蒂芬森的小说通过计算的隐喻呈现了人类思想的观点。每个作者都将计算作为比较模型来阐明自己对人性的看法。认知科学偶尔还会提出意识和自我定义的矛盾观点，这在很大程度上反映了当代许多文学作品中的不稳定，自我反省和自我怀疑。戴奇（Daitch）和戴利洛（DeLillo）的小说在结构，主题和特征上都重申了这一事实，表明了自定义在人物周围环境的不断变化和构成现代文化景观的原始作品的污染下如何遭受损害。
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