Paper short abstract:

My interest is to explore the effects of the Automated Vehicles in human cognition, in knowledge transmission, memory practices, spatial and temporal perception.

Paper long abstract:

If the mind is relationally affected by collective and environmental factors which is turn shape our cognition and interaction with the social, material and biological environments, then how the emergent technology of the Automated Vehicles would affect human cognition and embodied minds? This new technology can change the perception of urban space in multifarious ways, whilst creating new relational connections between mind, material culture and bodily practices.

My interest is to explore along the lines of cognitive approach, the way these new environmental factors and new material worlds interact with and in turn will affect human cognition. As the automated technology influences nearly every aspect of everyday practices, anthropologists should pose questions on the way this new artificially intelligence such as autonomous agents would affect cognition related to various aspects of human life like spatial perceptions, memory practices, emotions, embodied practices, creativity and imaginary perspectives.

Amidst growing concerns over the implication of such technology in human life social scientists point to the fact that the use and implementation of technology is viewed linear, while human practices and social implications aren't linear. Social forces like environmentalist, concerned citizens, government regulators, state mechanisms would regulate and control these technologies (Brown and Duguid, 2017). Although, these responses are true they only highlight the external restrictions and control mechanisms for regulating autonomous technology. The implication of Automated Vehicles in the shape on cognition, the aspects of human mind that would be affected, the embodied practices, knowledge patterns and memory mechanisms call for anthropological attention.