Cognitive metaphors and hyperspace

Prequisites:
  • history of ideas
  • practice of the visual display of information
Objectives: To study the history of spatial metaphors and their evolution since the advent of digital information spaces
Description: The history of space as a cognitive metaphor

Questions

 

SPATIAL METAPHORS IN THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The reciprocal interaction between the perception of space and space as a model of knowledge

 
  • The history of spatial perception as a cognitive model

The Renaissance studies of melancholy as a source of visual illusions, then the analyses of 'association of ideas' by the empirical philosophers of the Enlightenment, may be sen as the sources of the present-day correlation of thought and space

  • Information spaces

Information spaces as an image of thought: the memex and after
HYPERSPACE
Space as a cognitive model can continue as hyperspace.

 
  • The origins of hyperspace in mathematics

Hyperspace was originally a mathematical term referring to spaces in the higher dimensions (above the third dimension), as discussed by 19th-century mathematicians

  • Hypertext and hyperspace

There are theories of fiction modelled on hyperspace

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