1. Thinking Technology
Check my sweet technology theme

2. (pause for applause)

3. Hold on….
• What?!?! A computer that exceeds human
intelligence? But that‟s mad!

4. Personal Notes
I like cheese.
And apples.
Amber, please take out I bet cheese and apples would
a piece of paper and a be a great combination.
pen.
I know they would.

5. So what?
• Piece of paper becomes part of ones
“permanent memory trace”
• Problems: “Receptive capacity soon
exhausted”
• The advantage of permanence may
become obsolete once one “no longer
want to retain it in (ones) memory”.
• Mnemic System

6. Could slate be the solution?!?!
• Slate provides a place to keep information
until it‟s no longer needed, when it is
erased.
• Problems: In order to store new
information, old information must be
erased, one cannot “preserve a permanent
trace”
• Analogous of human‟s pept. cn.

7. Why is he raving about paper
and slate?
• Fraud did it as an analogy for human‟s
suppression and repression of information
we receive.

8. Derrida
• “Does it change anything that Freud did
not know about computers?”

9. Computers are smart.
• RAM = slate
• Hard-drive = piece of paper that can be
added to make larger
• So how are they different to us?

10. Consciousness
Murphie and Potts discuss consciousness
as being described as:
• Emotion
• Perception
• Cogitation
• Creativity
• Memory
• The sense of self.

11. Things to consider
Thought relies…
• on techniques and technologies (writing,
communication, mnemonics)
• on systems (dialectical method,
computers)
• on techniques, technologies and systems
to give the illusion of something separate
from these.

12. Point of this presentation?
• Think about it…

13. Reference List
• Freud, Sigmund (1971) “A note upon the mystic writing pad” in
Freud, Sigmund The complete psychological works of Sigmund
Freud, Vol. 19, trans J. Strachey, London: The Hogarth Press, pp
226-232
• Derrida, Jacques (1996) Archive fever: a freudian impression trans.
Eric Prenowitz, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp 7-23
• Murphie, Andrew and Potts, John (2003) „Technology, thought and
conciousness‟ in Culture and technology, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 142-168
• Kozulin, A. (1990). Vygotsky's psychology: A biography of Ideas.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.