Tacit Knowledge in Digital Humanitaristics

Abstract

It has been demonstrated that human corporality specifies tacit knowledge, which belongs to natural intelligence, by contrast to artificial intelligence. Cor­poral experience endows a person with creative potential that technical devices lack. It has been revealed that a computer cannot have the material basis that a human being as a biological organism possesses. This imposes limitations on artificial intelligence cognitive capabilities. The objectification of the tacit components of corporal experience in language can be considered as an impor­tant factor of creativity and cognition. It is the meaningful connections between implicit components of the subjective inner world that specify new knowledge content and underlie individual creativity. The use of natural language by a per­son differs from the use of sign systems by artificial intelligence. The difference is that natural language is meaningful in the subjective experience context. It would be more correct to speak of sign structure transformation by a computer as information processing rather than knowledge production. AI information be­comes knowledge by virtue of interpretation, endowing it with human meaning. Unlike digital devices, human intelligence is analogue since it expresses a con­tinuous stream of consciousness, an ongoing process of subjective meanings modification. The modern 4E-Cognition approach elicited the specifics of artifi­cial intelligence and its cognitive limitations. It has been demonstrated that cha­racteristics described within this approach are only partially applicable to artifi­cial intelligence.