Epistemological Implications

18. Epistemological Changes

• Deliberate and careful data analysis and critical thinking may fade.
• Reading on screens discourages deep reading (and deep reading encourages deep, rational, thinking).
• Hypertextual reading encourages distractions.
  

• Quick informational accessing and processing will increase.
• The IMAGE may dominate rather than textual or mathematical content.
  
• We may become toxically immersed.

"Frankly, I fear the power of a simulated world to alter the mind's conception of it's own desires (Castronova, Synthetic Worlds).

Body Ownership Causes Illusory Self-Attribution of Speaking and Influences Subsequent Real Speaking

Concept 18 Analysis article:

"Science Has a Nasty Photoshopping Problem."
<https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/10/29/opinion/science-fraud-image-manipulation-photoshop.html>

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"Overconfidence in news judgments is associated with false news susceptibility."
<https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2019527118>

Clive Thompson. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, Penguin Press, 2019.

Tom Nichols. Death of Expertise : The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. Oxford UP, 2017.

Cathy O'Neil. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.