From the Mental State of Noise to the New Frontiers of Cognition

IF 0.2 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Cecile Malaspina
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outside his window, Schopenhauer famously lamented, would lacerate his brain and quash every thought in its infancy. In “The Concept of Noise,” which we are happy to be able to republish here, Steven Sands and John Ratey can be credited with first spelling out the cognitive dimension of the predicament that Schopenhauer so lamented, offering the following definition of the “mental state of noise”: “By ‘noise,’ we mean an internally experienced state of crowding and confusion created by a variety of stimuli, the quantity, intensity and unpredictability of which make it difficult for individuals so afflicted to tolerate and organize their experience” (Sands and Ratey 290). However, noise, in this enlarged and cybernetically inflected sense, now alludes to a relation between contingency and control, which includes but is no longer limited to the experience of unwanted sound. In the past few decades this novel, cybernetic conception of noise has become synonymous with the complexity of our world and its global digitised information networks. As the economist Fischer Black put it so adroitly in his seminal paper from 1986, simply entitled “Noise”:
从噪音的精神状态到认知的新前沿
在窗外,叔本华著名地哀叹道,他会撕裂自己的大脑,并在婴儿时期压制每一个想法。在我们很高兴能够在这里再版的《噪音的概念》中,史蒂文·桑兹和约翰·拉蒂首先阐述了叔本华所哀叹的困境的认知层面,对“噪音的精神状态”给出了以下定义:“我们所说的‘噪音’是指由各种刺激产生的一种内部体验的拥挤和混乱状态,其数量、强度和不可预测性使如此痛苦的人很难容忍和组织他们的体验”(Sands和Ratey 290)。然而,噪音,在这个放大的和控制论的意义上,现在暗示了偶然性和控制之间的关系,包括但不限于不想要的声音的体验。在过去的几十年里,这种新颖的、控制论的噪音概念已经成为我们世界及其全球数字化信息网络复杂性的代名词。正如经济学家Fischer Black在1986年发表的一篇题为“噪音”的开创性论文中巧妙地指出的那样:
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ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES
ANGELAKI-JOURNAL OF THE THEORETICAL HUMANITIES HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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0.60
自引率
33.30%
发文量
57
期刊介绍: Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities was established in September 1993 to provide an international forum for vanguard work in the theoretical humanities. In itself a contentious category, "theoretical humanities" represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities encourages a critical engagement with theory in terms of disciplinary development and intellectual and political usefulness, the inquiry into and articulation of culture.
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