Grænsen for automatisering

- en virksomhedsteoretisk bestemmelse af informationsteknologien

Abstract

Under the influence of the work of Leontjev a theory of human activity is used to understand the human produets, whether these are tools or signification. Both kinds of produets are shown to develop through 3 consequtive stages: a personbound, a passive externalised and an active externalized stage. The information technology kan now be characterized as, on one hand an active ex ternalization of the passive ex ternalized written language, on the other and an external operationalization of the personal knowledge. Concerning the latter relation an equivalence between cognitive and computer mechanisms is asserted,
and in the argumentation the notorious dispute in the history of psychology about the existence of cognitive mechanisms is mentioned. In conclusion the limit of the computer is seen as its lack of a sense of reference with a foliowing lack of shift in reference. lts demonstrated, that these shifts are decisive for any basic new insight, and partly from Gödels theorem this epistemological transcendance is postulated to be the limit of automation, no matter whether it is internal, learning theoretical, or external, information technological.