Human–Machine Synergism in High-Level Cognitive Functioning: The Human Component

Two key issues are presented, from a human perspective, whose consideration would contribute to the creation of human-machine systems that provide synergism in high-level cognitive functioning. The key issues are 1) common meaning making - for high-level cognitive synergism, both human and machine should make the same meaning of common or correlated objects and events; and 2) common expertise development - having both human and machine develop common expertise would be one way to create common or correlated meaning making. Because an understanding of these issues requires knowledge about dual-processing in human cognition, the latter idea is discussed before the key issues are considered. In conclusion, the development of common or correlated meaning making would require both human and machine to learn a very large number of construed, grounded relations among objects and events within the domain of expertise in which they operate. Techniques employed in evolutionary robotics could be used to create common expertise development and therefore common meaning making. In general, meaning making should be a core feature of synergistic interaction between human and machine involving high-level cognition.