{"pk":28876,"title":"Introducing quantitative cognitive analysis: ubiquitous reproduction, cognitive\ndiversity and creativity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The rise of ubiquitous computing has cemented ubiquitous\nreproduction (UR) as a defining feature of contemporary\nhuman environments. UR is most obvious on our televisions\nand smartphones but has homogenised most material aspects\nof our lives. Emerging technologies such as 3D printing and\nrobotics will ensure that this trend intensifies. UR is an issue\nof global scale that is relatively intractable to qualitative\ntreatment. This paper introduces a novel quantitative\napproach to cognitive science and to analysis of UR. The\napproach uses the finiteness of cognition to establish a\nminimal ontology with which to model cognitive diversity\nunder UR. It demonstrates that, despite widespread\nvalorisation of diversity, cognitive diversity must be declining\nat a global level. The implications of this for creativity are\nthat the arc for creative impact is growing shorter as the need\nto be immediately intelligible promotes the formulaic at the\nexpense of the interpretable.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"ubiquitous computing; ubiquitous reproduction;\ncognitive diversity; creativity; intelligibility"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2zv7170x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Cameron","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shackell","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queensland University of Technology","department":""},{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bruza","name_suffix":"","institution":"Queensland University of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28876/galley/18747/download/"}]}