This article is really creating a buzz (sorry!!) The idea has some resonance to an aspect of Hayek’s social epistemology (see the article that I just today uploaded).
In much the same way that synapses are strengthened while unused linkages weaken and wither away, so too are paths to salient social knowledge strengthened or weakened – “social connectionism,” if you will.
Mark Rowlands on the Extended Mind
Kripke resigns as report alleges he faked results of thought experiments
Social relationships and groups: New insights on embodied and distributed cognition
Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 12
Stigmergy and emergent behaviour
The socially extended mind
Consciousness and the social mind
Science of Swarms
Jazz as conversation
Oakeshott on the Character of Religious Experience: Need There be a Conflict Between Science and Religion?
The Dynamically Extended Mind – A Minimal Modeling Case Study
A Confederacy of Dunces – quotes and extracts – 11
Hayek
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