Conceptualizing and Designing (Co)Augmented Intelligence(s) Enacting Complex Thinking: Morphological Constraints, Challenges and Implications

Abstract

This paper builds upon a recent proposal of a pragmatically-oriented framework for the practice of ‘Complex Thinking’ to further conceptualize it as a mode of thinking bridging different modes of thinking and types of cognitive activity. It explores the application of this framework for the design of human and computer-guided tools and strategies, or ‘Other’ Intelligences (OI), including AIs, which, coupled with a given observer/intervenor, would support and augment the enactment of Complex Thinking. This paper raises questions regarding the morphological constraints, challenges, and implications associated with the design of systems of (Co)Augmented Intelligences informed by Complex Thinking which aim to promote it.