Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216554
P. ffrench
Abstract Emerging in the wake of the broad paradigm of semiotics in discourses in the human sciences in France in the 1960s, and from other developments and emergent tendencies in philosophy and critical theory, a cluster of works in French thought of the 1970s, by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Jean-François Lyotard, and Roland Barthes, investigate the liminal spaces and dynamic relations between sense, sound, and noise. Depending on the angle adopted, these investigations bear upon the relations between articulated sound and noise; language and sound, the formed and the unformed, the coded and the non-coded, sound and music, sound and silence, and other formulations of acoustic liminality. This article brings to light how noise is an operative concept across this material; I argue for its pertinence to the question of the “mental state of noise” as elaborated by Steven Sands and John Ratey in their seminal piece “The Concept of Noise,” and then critically assessed by Cécile Malaspina in The Epistemology of Noise.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216553
C. Malabou
Abstract What is the influence of music on the brain? And in what cases can this influence cause dysfunctioning? Among the different examples analyzed by Oliver Sacks, one is particularly significant: the phenomenon of synesthesia. Synesthesia is connected to having an extra one that associates different kinds of sensory information, music, and color. It can sometimes transform hearing music as a painful experience, transforming it into a pure literal meaning – to feel together – the secret condition for all sensations? This hypothesis is examined by the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After all, Wagner was subject to synesthetic syndromes.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725x.2023.2216561
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216559
R. Menkman
Abstract Inspired by Fragments of a Hologram Rose, a 1977 science fiction short story by William Gibson, this 3D narrative work explores the violent stories of standardisation embedded in 3D composite objects. The full story is accessible online at: https://beyondresolution.info/Shredded-Hologram-Rose
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216542
Y. Denizhan
Abstract The common conception of intelligence in terms of information processing has its origin in cybernetics and information technology. Its import into cognitive science and the humanities not only generates theoretical problems, but also constitutes the basis of methods and policies that have adverse impacts on intelligent agents. In order to demonstrate why this technological conception of intelligence is not suitable for addressing the intelligence of living agents, and why natural intelligence is artificially not imitable, first, the basic notions, formalisms, and assumptions of the technological context are presented. Next, the cybernetic feedback scheme is modified by dropping the technological assumptions, and a more sophisticated closed-loop scheme is developed that is better suited for representing cognitive processes in living agents. With reference to the thus developed scheme, the capacity of achieving ontological expansion, via what will be called “internal restructuring,” is proposed as the criterion for intelligence.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216548
S. Wei
Abstract Michel Serres said that history is the propagation of effects, saying in his conversations with Bruno Latour, “we experience time as much in our inner senses as externally in nature, as much as le temps of history as le temps of weather,” characterized more by turbulence than by Euclidean geometry. Setting out from Serres’ nautical meditation on noise, guided by Giuseppe Longo’s and interlocutors’ characterization of the random as a function of theory and measure, one can distinguish the random from the non-schematizable noisy. How do we think given the noisy dynamics of the world? Bernard Stiegler’s epiphylogenetic technologies and Gilbert Simondon’s transindividuating technics prepares considering thought as collective as well as individual activity. After sallies into algorithmic technology to establish its limits, we consider how epiphylogenetic thought develops in the presence of indeterminacy. We return to noise not as a simple veil between the discernible and indiscernible, but as a constitutive aspect of the complexification and enrichment of developmental ontologies, an enrichment co-articulated by epiphylogenetic imagination and technics.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216545
F. Zhu
Abstract This paper considers how players of Magic: The Gathering (MTG) limited draft turn their acquired gameplay style or disposition (their MTG “gamer habitus”), with respect to drafting, into an object of knowledge. This is done in order to then consciously rework it, to respond to new formats and to the changing metagame. I will focus on a particular case study: how streamer Chord_O_Calls' instructional video shows his own re-evaluation of certain cards. Evidently, it is a process requiring reflexivity, although I aim to be specific with regard to the particular “form of reflexivity” involved. I distribute this outward to the MTG “habit assemblage” (an ensemble of techniques, things, relations) and argue that any individual player's instantiation of this reflexivity involves a practice-based synthesis of paratexts from the MTG habit assemblage that is not codified but is shaped by the assemblage. This leads to a consideration of the “intelligence” and limits of not only particular habits but that of the MTG “habit assemblage” itself. I argue that the broader socio-technical significance of the form of reflexivity that is being proliferated here is one which is defined by its flexibility, by an attentional style of delayed and shifting categorization.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216557
Inigo Wilkins
Abstract This paper focuses on the significance of the concept of noise for cognition and computation. The concept of noise was massively transformed in the twentieth century with the advent of information theory, cybernetics, and computer science, all of which provide formal accounts of information and noise centrally concerned with contingency. We show how the concept has changed from these classical formulations, through developments in mathematics (topology and topos theory), computing (interactive computing and univalent foundations), and cognitive science (predictive processing and cognitive morphodynamics). Ultimately it argues for the central importance of noise not only within a topological conception of cognition and computation, but also in the transcendental-empirical torsion of image schemata and the social interactive elaboration of freedom.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216538
Cecile Malaspina
Subsumed under the category of noise, in the context of Fischer Black’s paper on models for trading in the financial markets, is a range of uncertainties pertaining to economic forecasting, uncertainties about future tastes and developments in technology in this instance, or about irrational expectations. However, in terms of economic models alone, the profundity of Fischer Black’s insight goes well beyond the mere question of their efficiency. What he raises is a fundamental epistemological principle pertaining to all theory: noise is what afflicts our ability to test theories. We owe Fischer Black this stark truth of epistemological, ethical, and, dare I say, metaphysical consequence: because of noise, we are “forced to act largely in the dark” (529). Steven Sands and John Ratey’s article of the same year, “The Concept of Noise,” which we are happy to be able to republish here, can cautiously be credited with having first spelled out the cognitive dimension of the predicament to which Fischer Black points as noise. In this article, Sands, then Clinical Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and Ratey, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the same institution, propose the “mental state of noise” as a key concept transversal to the nosology or classification of psychiatric illnesses:
在Fischer Black关于金融市场交易模型的论文中，噪声类别下的假设是与经济预测有关的一系列不确定性，在这种情况下，未来品味和技术发展的不确定性，或非理性预期的不确定性。然而，仅就经济模型而言，菲舍尔-布莱克的深刻见解远远超出了其效率的问题。他提出的是一个与所有理论相关的基本认识论原则：噪音是折磨我们检验理论能力的因素。我们欠Fischer Black一个认识论、伦理以及形而上学后果的严酷事实：因为噪音，我们“被迫在很大程度上在黑暗中行动”（529）。史蒂文·桑兹（Steven Sands）和约翰·拉蒂（John Ratey）同年的文章《噪音的概念》（the Concept of Noise），我们很高兴能够在这里再版，可以谨慎地认为，它首先阐明了菲舍尔·布莱克（Fischer Black）所指的噪音困境的认知维度。在这篇文章中，时任哈佛医学院心理学临床讲师的Sands和同一机构的精神病学助理教授Ratey提出了“噪音的精神状态”作为一个横向于精神疾病的病因或分类的关键概念：
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216555
S. de Jager
Abstract Semantic noise, the effect ensuing from the denotative and thus functional variability exhibited by different terms in different contexts, is a common concern in natural language processing (NLP). While unarguably problematic in specific applications (e.g., certain translation tasks), the main argument of this paper is that failing to observe this linguistic matter of fact as a generative effect rather than as an obstacle, leads to actual obstacles in instances where language model outputs are presented as neutral. Given that a common and long-standing challenge in NLP is the interpretation of ambiguous – i.e., semantically noisy – cases, this article focuses on an exemplar ambiguity-resolution task in NLP: the problem of anaphora in Winograd schemas. The main question considered is: to what extent is the standard approach to disambiguation in NLP subject to a stagnant “image of language”? And, can a transdisciplinary, dynamic approach combining linguistics and philosophy elucidate new perspectives on these possible conceptual shortcomings? In order to answer these questions we explore the term and concept of noise, particularly in its presentation as semantic noise. Owing to its definitional plurality, and sometimes even desirable unspecificity, the term noise is thus used as proof of concept for semantic generativity being an inherent characteristic in linguistic representation, and its concept is used to interrogate assumptions admitted in the resolution of Winograd schemas. The argument is speculative and theoretical in method, and the result is an analysis which provides an account of the fundamentally dialogical and necessarily open-ended effects of semantic noise in natural language.
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