# Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-09-11-cogntion-information-knowledge-and-the-limits-of-serial-computing

The piece argues that growing computing power and information volume will not yield human cognition or knowledge without models of embodied and social processes.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 September 2007

## Where it lives

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 11 September 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: artificial-intelligence, cognition, knowledge, computing.

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