Jelle Bruineberg is an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and the author of this paper ‘Adversarial Inference: Predictive Minds in the Attention Economy’: 👇
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2023/1/niad019/7251284
In this podcast, we discuss the attention economy, the psychology and cognitive science of attention, predictive processing, AI and the future of the internet.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to the Attention Economy and Adversarial Inference
06:37 Limitations of the Broadbandian Conception of Attention
08:14 The Role of Action in Attention
11:51 The Relationship Between Attention and Executive Function
15:36 External and Internal Triggers in Attention
17:28 The Role of Self-Modeling in Attention and Agency
20:28 The Impact of Digital Environments on Attention and Concentration
25:06 Precariousness of Agency and Environmental Scaffolding
27:46 The Role of Positive Affect and Dopamine in Attention
31:59 Designing Environments to Support Attention and Agency
36:29 The Influence of AI on the Attention Economy and Agency
47:17 The Role of AI in Society
48:44 The Impact of Technology on Affordances
49:13 Regulating Digital Technologies
50:12 Building Agency-Enhancing Technologies
51:30 The Need for a New Philosophy
53:55 The Challenge of a Unified Theory of Attention
55:59 Attention as a Core Cognitive Process
56:45 Rebuilding the Internet
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Mahon.
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