Mahon McCann #79 - Jelle Bruineberg - How SOCIAL MEDIA manipulates your MIND to change your BEHAVIOUR
Jelle Bruineberg is an assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication.
Read his paper ‘Adversarial Inference: Predictive Minds in the Attention Economy’:
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2023/1/niad019/7251284
In this podcast, we discuss the attention economy, the psychology and cognitive science of attention, predictive processing, AI and the future of the internet.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to the Attention Economy and Adversarial Inference
06:37 Limitations of the Broadbandian Conception of Attention
08:14 The Role of Action in Attention
11:51 The Relationship Between Attention and Executive Function
15:36 External and Internal Triggers in Attention
17:28 The Role of Self-Modeling in Attention and Agency
20:28 The Impact of Digital Environments on Attention and Concentration
25:06 Precariousness of Agency and Environmental Scaffolding
27:46 The Role of Positive Affect and Dopamine in Attention
31:59 Designing Environments to Support Attention and Agency
36:29 The Influence of AI on the Attention Economy and Agency
47:17 The Role of AI in Society
48:44 The Impact of Technology on Affordances
49:13 Regulating Digital Technologies
50:12 Building Agency-Enhancing Technologies
51:30 The Need for a New Philosophy
53:55 The Challenge of a Unified Theory of Attention
55:59 Attention as a Core Cognitive Process
56:45 Rebuilding the Internet
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