Author	N. Katherine Hayles
Type	book

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo25861765.html [[Unthought_Katherine_Hayles.pdf]] Gilles Deleuze A Thousand Plateaus

Index

actor-network-theory (ANT), 115, 116, 118 actors. See cognizers adaptability, 29–30, 31, 34, 118 aesthetic strategies, and speculative realism, 193-95 affective capitalism, 173, 191 affects:

as illuminated in novels, 198;
relation to nonconscious cognition, 197 Affleck, Ben, 144 agency:
distributed agency, 83–84, 120, 131-39;
punctuated agency, 32, 142;
of systems capable of self-organizing, 81-82;
and technical cognitive systems, 131 agential realism, 69 agents (material forces and objects), 32 AIG (American International Group), 153, 155 algorithms:
interpretation in, 210;
word frequency algorithms, 207.
See also high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms Al-Qaeda, 140 American transcendentalists, 61 anaerobic bacteria, merging with respiring bacteria as survival strategy, 72 Anthropocene, 34, 83 Appadurai, Arjun, Banking on Words, 145 arbitrage, 149, 151, 152 Archipelago, 158 Arkin, Ronald C., 38, 136, 140 Arnuk, Sal, 159, 164, 166, 171 artificial intelligence, general, 191, 202 Artificial Life, 21-22 Ash, James, 163 assemblages, vs. networks, 118. See also cognitive assemblages, human-technical atmospheric media, 172 “attentional blink,” 54 Augmented Reality, 125 Auletta, Gennaro, Cognitive Biology, 25-26, 28 automated trading:
defined, 220n3 (Ch. 6);
history of, 156-62.
See also high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control system, Los Angeles, 121-23;
as cognitive assemblage, 123;
interaction of technical cognitions with human cognitions, 122-23, 203;
political assumptions of system, 123 automatic writing, 86 autonomous trading algorithms.
See high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms autonomous weapons, and shift in conduct of warfare, 137-38.
See also drone assemblages; UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) Autopoiesis and Cognition (Maturana and Varela), 20-21 Ayache, Elie, The Blank Swan, 144-48

Badiou, Alain, 194 Baker, R. Scott, Neuropath, 86 Baldwin effect, 72 Barad, Karen, 68-70;

notion of “agential realism,” 69;
notion of “intraaction,” 68, 69, 75 Barsalou, Lawrence:
on cognitivist paradigm, 13;
and modal brain simulations, 48, 88, 180;
theory of grounded cognition, 12, 48-49 Batch auctions, 167, 168-70, 175, 203 Bee communication, 74-75 Beer, Gillian, Darwin’s Plots, 18-19 Belief, in the traditional view and in cognitive biology, 16 Bell curve, 146, 148 Benjamin, Medea, Drone Warfare, 132 Bennett, Jane, 3, 83-84 Bentham, Jeremy, 37 Berger, Peter, 220n4 Berlant, Lauren, 184, 195-97, 221n1 Berry, David, 32, 174 Best, Stephen, 209 Bickle, John, and Elaborate Practical Reasoning, 43 Big Bang, 69 Binary codes, 22 Biological and technical cognition, interpenetration of, 11, 19 Bird, Christopher, 17 Black, Fisher, 145, 150 Black noir, 193-94 Black-Scholes values, 149 Black swan events, 143, 162 Blindsight, neurological phenomenon of, 101-2, 219n5 (Ch. 5) Bogost, Ian, 63 Bohr, Niels, 68 Bolton, Matthew, 137 Borges, Jorge Luis, “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,” 144-45 Born, Brooksley, 147 Braidotti, Rosi: “The Ethics of Be-coming Imperceptible,” 77-79;
and sustainable subject, 77-78, 203-4 Brain-Machine-Interfaces (BMI), 12 Branding, 172-73 Brenner, et al., 17-19 Brenner, Robert, 154 Bretton Woods agreement, 153 Brigham, Chris, 124 Bryan, Dick, 154 Bryant, Brandon, 140 BSM (Black, Scholes, and Merton differential equation), 145-46, 148-50, 152 Buchanan, Mark, 161-62 Buddhist tradition, and meditative practices, 61-63 Budish, Eric, 167 Buffett, Warren, characterization of derivatives, 147 Burke, Kenneth, 200 Burn, Stephen J., 86 Burroughs, William, Naked Lunch, 104 BZ (Belousov-Zhabotinsky) reaction, 81

Cage, John, 212 Calude, C. S., 190 Carpenter, John, 194 Cellular automata, and cognition in biological cells, 21 Chaitin, Gregory J., and Omegas, 187-88, 190, 202 Chamayou, Grégoire:

drone theory, 38-39;
on suicide bombers, 140 Chamovitz, Daniel, 18 Changeux, Jean-Pierre, 54 Chever, Adam, 124 Chicago Board Options Exchange, 149 Children of Men (film), 194 Chilean School of Biology of Cognition, 20 Chinese Room experiment, 97 CHOICEFW (free will), 35, 37 CHOICEII (interpretation of information), 35, 37 Clark, Andy, 21, 165 climate change, 83 codependent arising, 62 Coeckelbergh, Mark, 135 cognition:
capabilities not present in material processes, 29, 31, 34, 118;
defined, 22, 118;
dynamic, 51–52;
emergence from context-specific interactions, 21;
extension in cognitive biology to all life forms, 15–16;
presence in both biological life-forms and technical systems, 14;
as a process, 25, 51;
traditionally associated with human thought, 15, 39, 66.
See also nonconscious cognition(s); technical cognitive systems cognition (human), tripartite framework of, 27–30, 40 cognitive assemblages,
human-technical, 11–12, 117–19;
and affective forces, 178;
and computational media, 174;
digital assistants, 124–26;
drone assemblages, 37, 132–33, 135–37;
and ethical interventions, 35–40, 135–37, 204–5;
and financial derivatives, 142;
flow of information through a system and choices that modify and interpret the flow, 116;
and historical present, 195–97;
infrastructures as, 120–23;
interaction of human interpretations with technical systems, 1, 118, 203;
interactions across full range of human cognition, 118;
and intuition, 180–81, 201;
novels and, 197–201;
operation at multiple levels and sites, 118;
operation of mediators within, 116;
political nature of, 178;
roles of humanities in thinking about, 204–5;
and social signaling and somatic surveillance, 126–28;
as transformative, 37–39, 119;
and the unknowable, 189–93;
utopian potential of, 4–5, 202–16 cognitive biology, and cognition, 14–16, 66 cognitive nonconscious, the, usage, 2, 11–12.
See also nonconscious cognition(s) cognitive science:
cognitivism as dominant paradigm, 12;
paradigm of brain as a computer, 56–57 cognitive technologies. See technical cognitive systems cognitivist paradigm:
contrasted with embodied/embedded view, 13, 49;
dominance in 1990s and twenty-first century, 12 cognizers:
inclusion of both technical and human in the cognitive nonconscious, 2;
vs. noncognizers, 30–32;
as transformative actors, 116 Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), 153, 155 colocation, 157 computational media:
ability to interact with humans within cognitive assemblages, 174;
cognitive capability to simulate any other system, 33;
as cognitive technology, 34, 174;
evolutionary advantage over every other technology, 33–35;
e-waste, 34–35;
impact upon humanities, 208;
and incompleteness of control, 203;
and interpretation, 25;
and level-specific dynamics, 70 consciousness:
evolutionary role, 55;
requires fast-response information processing of nonconscious cognitions, 215;
simulations and representations in, 47–49;
slow uptake and limited processing ability, 10, 44, 50;
tendency to focus on the individual, 91, 106. See also core consciousness; higher consciousness consciousness, costs of:
anthropocentric bias, 45, 106;
expressed in history of Western thought, 86;
misrepresentation of anomalous situations, 44;
slowness relative to perception, 10, 44, 50.
See also McCarthy, Tom, Remainder; Watts, Peter, Blindsight context:
and emergence of cognition, 21;
and meaning, 23, 26;
and non-conscious cognition, 13;
provided by novels, 21 continuous limit order book (CLOB) trading, 167–68 Conway, John, game of “life,” 22 Corballis, Michael C., The Wandering Mind, 61 core consciousness:
awareness of self and others shared by humans and non-humans, 9, 41;
connection with the cognitive nonconscious, 45;
and “new unconscious,” 10;
process of arising through maps of body states, 46–47 Cramton, Peter, 167 credit default swaps, 152–53 “Critical Studies in Finance Capital,” 176–77 Customary International Humanitarian Law Database, 134 cybernetic paradigm, 202 Czyzewska, Maria, 50

Damasio, Antonio:

Descartes’ Error, 86;
and the proto-self, 10, 45–46, 219n4;
and re-representation, 46, 49;
on the self, 42–43;
on tendency of consciousness to focus on the individual, 91, 106 Danielewski, Mark, Only Revolutions, 205 “dark pools,” 157–58 Darwin, Charles, The Origin of Species, 18–19 data environments, 190, 192 Datek, 156 Defense One website, 137 Dehaene, Stanislas:
“Conscious and Nonconscious Processes: Distinct Forms of Evidence Accumulation?”, 52–54;
and global workspace, 53–54, 70;
and nonconscious processing of subliminal stimuli, 49 Deleuze, Gilles, 70, 190. See also Deleuzian paradigm Deleuzian paradigm:
and assemblages, 70–71, 75, 115, 117;
conflict with Darwinian organism, 76–77;
deterritorializations, 73–74, 77;
and force, 80–83;
lack of empirical verification, 79–80;
and new materialisms, 70–71;
and renunciation of subjects, 219n3;
“royal sciences” in contrast to “minor sciences,” 79–80 de Moivre, Abraham, 148 Dennett, Daniel, 42, 44 Derby, Matthew, 104 derivatives. See financial derivatives Derrida, Jacques, 98 determinism, 34 deterritorializations, 73–74, 77 Dharasana Salt Works, India, 140 digital assistants:
and homogenization of behavior, 125;
and neurological changes in users, 119 digital humanities:
and identification of patterns not previously detected by human reading, 209–10;
recursive process of human conscious analysis and technical cognition, 5, 208, 210–11, 214–15;
and widening of scope of humanistic inquiry, 206 digital media:
long-lasting effects of minimal exposure to on human neurology, 30, 125.
See also digital assistants digital search engines, 32 distributed agency:
and technical autonomy, 131–39 Dresp-Langley, Birgitta, 55 Dreyfus, Hubert L.:
and “absorbed coping,” 57–59;
debate with John McDowell, 56–60 drone assassinations, 132 drone assemblages:
evaluation of ethical issues regarding through cognitive assemblage approach, 135–37;
US Air Force deployment of, 133.
See also UAAVS (unmanned autonomous aerial multivehicle systems, or swarms); UAAVs (unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles); UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) drone pilots, 38–39, 140 Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, 12 Dyer, Michael, 105 “dynamic replication,” 146

Eagleman, David:

Incognito, 215 Edelman, Gerald:
and coherence, 43;
and functional cluster index (CI), 47;
reentrant signaling, 55;
Theory of Neuronal Group Selection (TNGS), 45, 46–47 efficient-market hypothesis (EMH): 149, 164–65, 166 Ekman, Ulrik, 123 embodied/embedded paradigm: 13, 15–16, 21, 49, 61–62 Embodied Mind, The (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch), 21, 61–63 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 61 enactive cognitive science, 21, 62–63 endosymbiosis, theory of, 71, 72, 81 environmental monitoring systems, 32 epigenetics, 72 ==epistemic complexity, 16== equilibrium model:
assumptions underlying, 146, 148–49;
and “theological unconscious,” 148 Ernst, Wolfgang, Memory and the Digital Archive, 219n5 error, importance of in discovery of new concepts, 190–93, 197 ethical interventions:
cognitive assemblage approach, 35–40, 135–37, 204–5;
to finance trading, 166–67, 169, 175 eukaryotic cells, 71 Euronext, 158 evolution:
new materialisms and, 71–76;
role of consciousness and nonconscious cognition, 55;
social signals and, 128 evolvability, 30, 31, 34, 118 expeditionary warfare, 132, 135 experimental axiomatics, 190, 192

face-recognition systems, 120, 131 Fazi, Beatrice, 203 feedback loops, 150–52, 155–56, 162 finance trading:

automated trading, history of, 156–62;
systematic reengineering of, 165–69;
transition from mixed human-machine phase to new all-machine phase, 162.
See also high-frequency trading (HFT) “Financial Black Swans Driven by Ultrafast Machine Ecology” (Johnson et al.), 162 financial derivatives:
and cognitive assemblages, 142;
complex temporalities of, 143–47;
and credit default swaps, 152–53;
and dynamic replication, 146;
exponential growth of from 1970s onward, 154–55;
as form of writing, 144–45;
modeling of price using probabilities, 145–46;
nature as future contracts, 143–44;
over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, 147;
and strike price, 144, 145;
and subprime mortgages, 152–53, 155;
and temporal folding, 152 financial economy:
and the humanities, 169–75;
increasing percentage of total economic activity, 155.
See also finance trading; financial derivatives; high-frequency trading (HFT); stock market; stock market crises finite-state machine, 185 Fish, Stanley, 210, 211 Fisher, Mark, Capitalist Realism, 194–95 Fitbit bracelet, 35 Flanagan, Owen, 42 flexibility, 29, 31, 34, 118 fMRI (functional magnetic resonance images) scans, 48, 53, 86 force:
and new materialisms, 80–83 Foveon-equipped Sigma DP digital image sensor, 63 Fredkin, Edward, 23, 24 Freeman, Walter J., 13, 49 Freud, Sigmund, and the unconscious, 27, 148, 207, 217n2 Friedman, Norman, 132, 137 functional cluster index (CI), 47 future anterior, 144

Gandhi, Mohandas, 140 general artificial intelligence, 191, 202 gene regulation, 72 Geneva Conventions, 134, 135 Gensler, Gary, 151 Gianella, Eric, 210 Gibson, William, Pattern Recognition, 196 Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 230n1 Gladwell, Malcolm, Blink, 54 Gleick, James, 22 Global Minotaur, 154 global workspace, 53–54, 61, 70 Gödel, Kurt, incompleteness theorem, 186, 188 Goldsmith, Kenneth, “uncreative writing,” 211–12 Goodman, Steve, 172–73 Goodwin, Brian C., 14 Great Depression of 1929–39, 150 Great Lakes sea-rocket plants (cakile edentual), 20 Great Recession, 154 Grosz, Elizabeth:

on Darwin’s continuum of humans with animals, 76–80;
on Deleuze, 70;
on force, 80;
“A Politics of Imperceptibility,” 77;
and sexual selection, 76–77 grounded cognition, theory of, 12, 48–49 Guattari, Félix, 70, 75, 79–80, 116, 117, 190, 219n3 Guillory, John, 208

Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, 86 Hansen, Mark B. N., Feed-Forward, 44, 172–74, 175, 176, 192, 203 Harman, Graham, 63 Heidegger, Martin, 170 Heisenberg, Werner, 68 Her (film), 126 higher consciousness:

and excesses of consumerist culture, 91;
generation of inner narratives that interpret actions of the self and create coherence, 9–10, 42, 43, 45;
and thinking, 2;
unique to humans and some primates, 41 high-frequency traders:
and claims against cost of “sniping,” 167, 168;
increasing dependence on “maker and taker” fees, 158–59;
largest customers of exchanges by 2009, 158 high-frequency trading (HFT):
consequences of technical autonomy, 143;
and continuous limit order book (CLOB) trading, 167–68;
defined, 220n3 (Ch. 6);
effect on average time a stock is held, 157;
and frequency of “black swan” events, 143, 162;
generation of purely speculative profits, 164;
introduction of instabilities, 159–60;
temporal gap between human and technical cognition leading to autonomy for technical agency (“punctuated agency”), 142;
Ultrafast Extreme Events (UEEs), 164, 169 high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms:
and advancement of vampiric capitalism, 171–72;
“arms speed race” toward faster infrastructures, 165–68;
constant interactions with other algorithms resembling propaganda warfare, 163–64;
designed specifically to create informational inequalities, 165;
the Disruptor, 159–60;
do not require human agency to act, once created, 171, 172;
and the flash crash of May 2010, 155–62, 166;
human-algorithm interactions, 163–65;
microtemporal strategies inaccessible to humans, 144, 172;
operation outside realm of human possibility, 131;
and recursive feedback loops, 155–56;
“sniffing,” 157, 163;
“spoofing” algorithms, 164;
and volume-weighted average price (VWAP), 163–64 Hilbert, David, 188, 189 Hill, Thomas, 50 Hiroshima, 135 historical present, and cognitive assemblages, 195–97 Horowitz, Eli, 104 human-algorithm interactions, complex ecologies of, 163–65 human and primate brains, mirror neuron circuits in, 12–13 human emotion, and technical cognition, 139–41 humanistic critique, and human cognitive ecologies, 39–40 Humanities:
and deconstructive theory, 117;
differential value placed on interpretation and description, 206–209;
enlarging the mind of, 205–206;
impact of computational media upon, 208;
and interventions in finance capital, 169–77;
isolation of from the sciences and engineering due to traditional understandings of interpretation, 213–14;
need to broaden concepts of meaning and interpretation to include functions of nonconscious cognitions, 207–8, 213–14;
roles in thinking about cognitive assemblages, 204–5;
traditional concern with meanings relevant to humans in human-dominated contexts, 26, 213.
See also digital humanities Human Rights Watch, 134, 137 Hunsader, Eric Scott, 161

index options, 149 inflection point, 203, 204, 221n1 (Ch. 8) information, processual and qualitative view of, 23–24 information compression techniques, 23 information processing:

vs. goal-directed behavior, 52;
and nonconscious cognition, 50–52 infrastructures:
and technical cognition, 120–23;
as technological unconscious, 119 Instinet, 156, 157 insurgency, 135 intelligence vs. cognition, 51 international humanitarian law, 134 International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC), Harvard Law School, 134, 137 ==Internet, as transformative cognitive assemblage, 119== interpretation:
in algorithmic analyses, 210;
nonconscious cognition and, 24, 126;
range of depicted in novels, 199 “intraaction,” 68, 69, 75 intuition, and cognitive assemblages, 180–81, 201 Investors Exchange (IEX), ethical approach to finance trading, 166–67, 169, 175 irony, 200 Islamic State, 140, 220n2 (Ch. 6) Island (electronic pool), 156, 157, 158

James, William, 15, 42 Jameson, Fredric, 212 Jenson, Deborah, 220n3 Jockers, Matthew, 210 Johnson, Neil, 162, 163, 164 Johnston, John, 185 Jonze, Spike, 126

Kabat-Zinn, Jon, 60–61 Katsuyama, Brad, 165–66, 169–70, 203 Kelly, Kevin, What Technology Wants, 33 Keynes, John Maynard, 151 ==knowledge:==

in the traditional view and in cognitive biology, 16 Kouider, Sid, 49, 54 Kováč, Ladislav, 14–16 Krishnan, Armin, 134 Kruse, Mark, 68–69

Lange, Ann-Christina, 163–64 language learning systems, 32 Latour, Bruno:

on effects of human-technical assemblages on both ends and means, 36–37, 13;
on empirical support, 79;
Laboratory Life (with Woolgar), 220n3;
on production of power by mediators, 116;
Reassembling the Social, 115;
“sociology of the social,” 115, 116–17;
on technical artifacts as mediators in human behavior, 35–36;
and temporal unfolding in technical artifacts, 143 laws of war, 120 Le Guin, Ursula, The Left Hand of Darkness, 1 Lenoir, Timothy, 210 Lethem, Jonathan, Motherless Brooklyn, 86 Levinas, Emmanuel, 36 Levine, Joshua, 156 Lewicki, Pawel, 50 Lewis, Michael, Flash Boys, 165–66 Libet, Benjamin, 44 lie detector tests, 129 limit orders, 158 literary descriptive techniques, 33 Lockheed Martin RQ170 Sentinel drone, 133 log-normal distribution, 146, 150 Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM),
failure of, 147, 150–52, 153 Lyon, Pamela, 15

MacKenzie, Donald, 148, 149–52, 153, 163, 164, 165 Madhyamika schools, 62 Magnani, Lorenzo, 218n9 “maker/taker” policy, 158–59 Making of a Fly, The, 155–56 Malabou, Catherine, 218n7 Marcus, Ben, The Flame Alphabet, 104 Marcus, Sharon, 209, 210 Margulis, Lynn, 71 Marshall, Kate, “Novels by Aliens,” 212 “Martens Clause,” 134 Marx, Karl, 159 mass extinction, sixth, 31 material processes:

differences between those whose actions are deterministic and those whose actions can lead to more complex outcomes, 81;
distinction between adaptive and nonadaptive systems, 81;
foundation from which cognition occurs, 28–29, 31, 66;
limitations of, 29, 31, 34, 118;
and nonconscious cognition, 67, 75 mathematics, and formal symbol manipulations, 12 Maturana, Humberto, 14, 20–21, 47 Mauer, Bill, 148, 149–50 Maxwell, James Clerk, 179 McCain Conference on Military Ethics and Leadership, Tenth Annual, 137 McCarthy, Tom, Remainder, 4, 219n2;
absence of technical cognition, 109;
addiction to trauma, 94–95;
consciousness vs. power of matter, 87–89, 108;
and real simulations, 95–96;
reenactment of the dysfunctions of consciousness, 89–92;
time manipulation as compensation for inability to integrate temporal events, 92–94 McDowell, John:
debate with Hubert Dreyfus, 56–60;
and importance of rational experience, 57–60;
Mind and World, 56 meaning:
and context, 23, 26;
and the self, 43 meaning-making, in both technical and biological systems, 26–27 media archaeology, 219n5 medical systems, expert, 39 meditative practices, 60–63;
breathing, 62;
and emptiness or sunyata (absence of self), 62 Meillassoux, Quentin, 148, 194 MeMachine, 129–31, 220n2 Meriwether, John E., 150, 151 Merton, Robert, 146, 148–49, 150, 152 metaphor, 200 metonymy, 200 Metzinger, Thomas, 219n3 (Ch. 4);
“Phenomenal Self-Model” (PSM) and “Phenomenal Model of the Intentionality Relation” (PMIR), 41–42 “military necessity,” 134–35 Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World (Dreyfus), 56–57 mindfulness, 60–61 mirror neurons:
and empathy and interpretations of intentions, 48, 128;
in human and primate brains, 12–13 Mitchell, Tom, Never-Ending Language Learning (NELL) project, 124, 210 MIT Media Lab, 126 mnemonic control, 172–73 Moffett, Kevin, 104

Nagasaki, 135 Nagel, Thomas, 63 Nanex, 157, 159, 161, 162, 164 Nasdaq:

effects of ECNs on, 157;
transformation from quotation service to licensed national exchange, 158 national debt, U.S., 154 Nealon, Jeffrey, Plant Theory, 217n4 NELL (Never Ending Language Learning program), 124, 210 neocleous, Mark, 159 networks, 118 neurofiction, 86 neuron, etymology of term, 17 neuronal processes:
computational view of, 13;
importance of levels in, 70 neurons, with excitatory axons, 53, 70 “Neuroscience and Modern Fiction” (Modern Fiction Studies, 61.2, Summer 2015), 86 new materialisms:
decentering of human subject, 65, 219n3;
and Deleuzian paradigm, 70–71;
and evolution, 71–76;
and force, 80–83;
limitations of, 65–66;
little acknowledgment of cognitive processes, 66;
little acknowledgment of level-specific dynamics, 70–71;
matter as “lively” rather than passive, 65;
and ontology, 65, 68–71;
and survival, 76–80;
and transformation, 65, 83–85 “new” unconscious, 10, 27, 217n2 Nicolelis, Miguel, 12 Nixon, Richard M., 153 [nonconscious cognition]:
and bottom-up and top-down communications, 53–54, 70;
bridging human, animal, and technical cognitions, 67, 79, 201;
and complex information processing, 50–52;
countervailing narrative to Deleuzian concepts, 67, 80;
creation of sensory or nonverbal narrative, 10, 217n1;
and designs of neoliberal capital, 191;
empirical confirmation of, 80;
essential to consciousness, 1, 10, 50, 55, 59–60, 66, 214, 215;
evolutionary role, 55;
as a humanistic concept, 56–60;
in human/technical hybrids, 141;
importance in social networking and group decision making, 128;
importance of context to, 13;
importance of information processing in, 49–52;
inaccessible to consciousness, 27, 51;
integration of sensory inputs, 28;
integration of temporal events into perceived simultaneity, 93;
interaction with consciousness, 52–56;
mediation between material processes and modes of awareness, 67, 75;
and new materialisms, 69–70, 82, 84;
parallels to in non-Western and alternative traditions, 60–64;
and pattern recognition and interpretation, 24, 50–51, 52, 55, 126;
prevention of consciousness from being overwhelmed, 10, 28, 56, 59;
processing of emotional cues in face and body postures, 55;
processing of somatic information to create integrated body states, 27, 45–46, 126;
relation to affects, 197;
staging in theater of consciousness, 211–12;
structural and functional similarities in biological organisms and technical systems, 13;
usage, 11 nonconscious cognition(s), in technical systems:
externalizations of human cognitive processes, 25;
interpretation within contexts, 24–25;
recursive interconnections with other technical systems, 24, 215–16.
See also technical cognitive systems. novels, and cognitive assemblages, 197–201 nuclear weapons, 135, 139 Núñez, Rafael, 13, 49 NYSE, transformation into for-profit corporation, 158

obstetric ultrasound, and new ethical considerations, 36 Omegas, 187–88, 190, 202 onticity, 15–16 ontology, and new materialisms, 68–71 Opie, Jonathan, 15 over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, 147

Parikka, Jussi:

application of Deleuzian ideas to insects, 71, 74–75;
and computer simulations on insect swarms, 81 Parisi, Luciana:
Abstract Sex, 71–74;
Deleuzian orientation, 72–73;
and general artificial intelligence, 191, 202;
and importance of error in discovery of new concepts, 190–93;
on mnemonic control, 172–73;
privileging of nonlinear dynamics, 81;
on the significance of Chaitin’s Omegas, 190, 202–3 particle physics, 69 Patterson, Scott, 148, 156–59, 160 Paycheck (film), 144 Peirce, C. S., 190 Pentland, Alex (“Sandy”), 119–20, 126–29 Perloff, Marjorie, 211–12 PET scans, 86 Pinker, Steven, 104, 126 planetary cognitive ecology:
and cognitive assemblages, 3–5, 205;
and cognitive technologies, 19;
and human cognition, 39 plant neurobiology, 17 plants:
kin recognition, 20;
plant intelligence, 17–18, 20, 219n4 (Ch. 4);
sessile lifestyle, 20 plant signaling:
and claims for plant intelligence, 16–20;
parallels to animal neurobiology, 17 Plato, 17 Pollan, Michael, 17, 18, 20 posthumanism, 217n6 “postracial” novels, 193–94 post-traumatic stress disorder, 140 Power, Matthew, 140 Powers, Richard, The Echo Maker, 86 pragmatism, 63 prehensions, 172–73, 192 psychoanalytic unconscious, 27, 148, 207, 217n2 punctuated agency, 32, 142

quantum mechanical theories, 68–69, 218n2

Rafferty, Michael, 154 Ramachandran, V. S., The Tell-Tale Brain, 48 recursion, 47 Regan, Tom, 36 Reg NMS (National Market System, SEC), 157–58, 162 representation, major function of proto-self, 47–48 re-representations, and simulation, 48–49 reterritorialization, 73–74 Riddell, Allen, 205 robot weapons, 38, 131 Rosch, Eleanor:

The Embodied Mind (with Varela and Thompson), 21, 49, 61–63;
“Reclaiming Concepts,” 13 Rotman, Brian, 147 Rowland, Jennifer, 220n4

Sacks, Oliver:

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 86;
case of the “Disembodied Lady,” 87–88, 98 Saldívar, Ramón:
on “postracial” novels, 193–94; 185, 199, 221n1 Saluzzi, Joseph, 159, 164, 166, 171 satyagrahis (resisters), 140 Scholes, Myron, 145, 150, 152, 153 science studies, and description, 209 Searle, John:
Chinese Room experiment, 97 Secret Life of Plants, The (Tompkins and Bird), 17 Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, 167 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC):
investigation of flash crash of May 6, 2010, 161–62, 166;
National Market System (Reg NMS), 157–58, 162;
Order-Handling Rules and Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs), 157 Security Information Processor (SIP feed), 158 self:
sense of, 43 self-driving cars, 120, 131 self-organizing systems, 81 “self-reproducing automata,” 22 Sergent, Claire, 54 Serres, Michel, 143 Shannon, Claude:
theory of information, 22–23 Sharkey, Noel, 137 Shaviro, Steve, 3 Shim, John, 167 Silent History, The (Horowitz, Derby, and Moffett), 104 Simondon, Gilbert, 23–24 simulations:
and Barsalou’s theory of grounded cognition, 48, 88, 180;
essential to communication between proto-self and consciousness, 49;
and grasp of abstract concepts, 48–49;
modal brain, 88, 180;
and re-representations, 47–49;
and social interactions, 48 Singer, Peter, 134, 135 smart technologies, 2 Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, 220n3 “sniffing,” 157, 163 social signals:
on the evolutionary scale, 128;
and human-technical cognitive assemblages, 126–28;
importance to human sociality, 127 sociometer, 126–29 somatic markers:
assembly into body maps, 27, 45–46, 126 somatically embedded in body, 126 somatic surveillance, 129–31 speculative realism, 63, 193–95, 212 “spoofing” algorithms, 164 Spread Network, 167 Stafford, Barbara, 220n3 Stewart, Garrett, 200 Stiegler, Bernard:
concept of “long circuits,” 170–71;
concept of tertiary retention, 170–71;
and dynamic of poison and cure, 125–26;
framework for understanding coevolution of humans and technology, 83, 170–71, 175, 176, 219n6 Stockdale Center “Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies” program, 137 stock market:
demise of efficient market hypothesis, 164–65;
institution of new order types, 158–59;
original impetus for, 159;
shattering into private markets, 157–58.
See also finance trading; financial economy; high-frequency trading (HFT) stock market crises:
crash of October 1987, 149–50, 152;
crash of 2007–8, 152–55;
and feedback loops, 150–52, 153;
flash crashes, 160–62;
and flight to quality, 151;
Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), 147, 150–52, 153;
and volatility smile (smirk, skew), 150.
See also financial derivatives Stone, Christopher D., 19 strike price, 144, 150 stub quote, 160 Suarez, Daniel:
Kill Decision, 138–39 subcortical processors, 53–54 subject:
decentering of in new materialisms, 65, 219n3;
sustainable, 77–78, 203–4;
in the traditional view and in cognitive biology, 16 subliminal processing, 49, 53–54
distinguished from preconscious processing, 54–55 subprime mortgages, 152–53, 155;
Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs), 153, 155 suicide bombers, 140 superportfolio, 152 surface reading, 209 surrealism, 86 surveillance and communication satellites, 32, 39 survival, and new materialisms, 76–80 sustainable subject, 77–78, 203–4 swarm behavior, financial algorithms, 163 swarms (UAAVS), 133, 138, 220n5 synecdoche, 200 systems at equilibrium, and linear differential equations, 80–81

Taleb, Nassim:

“Black Swan” argument, 146 technical cognitive systems, 20–25
as autonomous actors, 14, 32, 120
designed to prevent human consciousness from being overwhelmed by information, 11
differences and similarities to human cognitive ecology, 39
employing CHOICEII, 39
and ethics, 35–40
externalizations of human cognitive processes, 25
and human emotion, 139–41
and infrastructures, 120–23
interpenetration with human cognitive systems, 1, 11, 19, 32, 109–10, 122–23, 203, 210–11, 216
and nonconscious cognitive processes, 24–25, 215–16
operation of many through signals inaccessible to direct human
perception, 26, 172, 192
and planetary cognitive ecology, 141
processing of information faster than human consciousness, 11, 25
as responsible actors, 36–37
trend toward agency and autonomy, 131
unexpected effects of, 36 technological unconscious, 119, 173–74 tertiary retention, 170–71 thalamocortical system, 46 “theological unconscious,” 148 Thing, The (film), 194 thinking:
and cognition, 14–16;
defined as thoughts and capabilities associated with higher consciousness, 2 Thompson, Evan, 21, 49, 61–63 Thompson, William (Lord Kelvin), 179 Tompkins, Peter, 17 Tononi, Giulio, 43, 46, 47 trade deficit, U.S., 154 trading algorithms, automated. See high-frequency trading (HFT) algorithms traffic networks, sensing and acting, 39 transformation:
and cognitive assemblages, 37–39, 119;
and new materialisms, 65, 83–85 Trends in Plant Science, 17–18 tsunami, 3 Turing, Alan, 185–88, 203, 216 Turing machine:
and halting problem (Entscheidungsproblem), 185–87, 194, 221n3;
theoretical model, 221n2, 221n4 Turquoise (trading platform of London Stock Exchange), 165

UAAVS (unmanned autonomous aerial multivehicle systems, or swarms):

defined, 220n5;
low cost of building, 138
“auction” strategy, 133–34 UAAVs (unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles):
civilian uses of, 132;
communications with remote pilot, 133;
defined, 220n5;
inability to distinguish between combatants and civilians, 134;
transition from pilot-operated to autonomous swarms, 120. See also UAAVS (unmanned autonomous aerial multivehicle systems, or swarms) UAV Global Hawk, 133 UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles):
civilian uses of, 132;
communications with remote pilot, 133;
defined, 220n5;
threat of unlimited warfare, 139.
See also UAAVS (unmanned autonomous aerial multivehicle systems, or swarms); UAAVs (unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles) Uncertainty Principle, 68 “unthought.” See nonconscious cognition(s)

Varela, Francisco, 14, 20-21, 47, 49, 61-63 Velmans, Max, 101-2, 219n5 (Ch. 5) Verbeek, Peter-Paul, 35-36, 218n9 video-game player, and “envelope” phenomena, 163 visual masking, 49 VIV, 124-26, 215-16 volatility smile (smirk, skew), 150 volume-weighted average price (VWAP), 163-64 von Frisch, Karl, 74 von Hagen, Gunther, Körperwelten (Body Worlds), 129 von Neumann, John, 22

Waddell & Reed Financial, 159-60, 161, 162, 163 “waggle” bee dance, 74-75 Wall, Cynthia Sundberg, 33 “The Warning” (PBS documentary), 147 Watts, Peter, Blindsight, 4, 219n3 (Ch. 4), 219n5 (Ch. 4)

advanced technology without consciousness, 105-8
costs of consciousness, 102, 103-5
difference between authenticity and reconstruction, 98
interpenetration of human with technical cognition as “new normal,” 109-10
modification of human and non-human consciousness, 98-100
and neuroscience, 96-98 wave-particle duality, 68, 75 Weaver, Warren, 22 Weiner, Norbert, 12 Weiskrantz, Lawrence, 101-2 Whitehead, Alfred North:
prehensions, 172, 192
processual philosophy, 172, 203 Whitehead, Colson, The Intuitionist, 4, 178-201, 221n1
intuitionism operating as cognitive assemblages, 180-81
and limitations of nonconscious cognition, 180-87
metaphor of “racial uplift,” 182, 199, 204
polito-aesthetic strategies 193-95
symbolization of the limits of knowledge, 188-89
two distinct modes of cognition, 179 Whitehead, Colson, Zone One, 212 Wiener, Norbert, The Human Use of Human Beings, 202, 203 Williams, Raymond, 34, 195 Wilson, E. O., 127 Wolfe, Cary, 217n6 Woolgar, Steve, 220n3 word frequency algorithms, 207

X-47B Stealth UAAV, 133

Yaroufakis, Yanis, 153-55, 230n1 Yu, Edward, 121-23

Zenko, Micah, 139 Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, 194

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