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Artefact and Cognition

Ontologically artefacts have a double nature: they are part of organism, i.e. its extensions into environment; and they are detached from it, they belong to the environment. They are human projections onto environment, and from the environment they project themselvs onto humans. These aspects give rise, respectively, to the instrumental and to the cosmic view of technology. In both the epistemilogical role of artefacts has been completely ignored. It consists in a complex cognitive dynamics involved in artefact production in which ideas, the products of human mind/brain, pass through human hands into external world becoming thus invested by reality, while at the same time parts of environment show their capacity to receive unnatural "ideal" forms. In the process humans are both conquerors and midwives; they enforced something on, and they bring something out of nature. Hence, the distinction between ancient and modern technology along this line is spurious. Epistemologically speaking, it is the world of human artefacts that makes human cognition to happen outside, as well as inside, the nervous system.

artefact, technology, cognition, production, deduction, conduction

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