Technologically acquired knowledge: A new theory of cyber knowledge

In this paper, a new framework titled “technologically acquired knowledge” is formulated; a framework that attempts to redefine the traditional concept of acquired knowledge in light of the profound transformations of the digital age and the emergence of intelligent systems. According to this theory, the process of acquiring knowledge is no longer formed solely in the mind and through internal perceptual forms, but is realized in the context of digital technologies, data, algorithms, and intelligent networks. The paper shows that knowledge in the technological world is based on four pillars: the emergent mind in the context of data, in which the human mind acquires a phenomenal informational character; distributed cognition, in which the production and processing of knowledge is divided between humans, devices, and the digital environment; technological representation, which acts instead of classical mental forms and makes the world accessible to cognition through digital models and images; and technological phenomenology, which reconstructs human lived experience through digital intermediaries. This article also emphasizes a kind of technological externalism that sees the truth of knowledge as the result of a valid causal link between technological data and external phenomena. The information theory of the phenomenal mind and distributed cognition are also analyzed as theoretical foundations of this project. The theory of “technologically acquired knowledge” ultimately attempts to show that in the age of artificial intelligence and networked environments, technology is no longer a tool for knowledge; rather, it has become part of the mechanism for the realization of knowledge itself.