In diploma thesis we will present a new conceptual apparatus, which will enable a more comprehensive and accurate analysis of the various sociopolitical consequences of the intensified input of ''smart'' or computational technologies and previously inaccessible information into the social landscape or into the existing cultural interface. The difference between this interpretation and similar interpretations within media and communication studies will then be based on the fact that in the assignment, we will devise an interpretative scheme around a theory of cognition and through its essential implications provide central points for a description of sociopolitical situation to come. We will take into account R. Scott Bakker's theory of cognition and through some of its radical implications – i.e. the realization that human cognition is heuristic, that it has its own ecology and that it depends on stable backgrounds – show why such exponential input of technical cognition and so-called deep information into human cognitive ecology could lead to the emergence of various crash space scenarios and help to end the effective functioning of evolutionary acquired cognitive tools.
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