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Rupert Reviews Rowlands/Interview with Shapiro

These two items via Ken Aizawa’s blog.

1. Rob Rupert reviews Mark Rowlands’ latest

2. Ginger Campbell interviews Larry Shapiro (check out the companion episodes Ginger mentions)

Mind vs Machine

Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic.

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February 25, 2011 Comments Off Short URL artificial intelligence, brain science, Brian Christian, computation, computational intelligence, consciousness, john lucas, Loebner Prize, mind body, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, robotics, robots, the "hard" problem, Turing, turing machine, turing test

AI as applied philosophy

Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine.

Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neither. Or, most intriguingly of all, maybe it is both? Is there an experimentum crucis that we might perform to settle a question like this once and for all?

No. Intelligence isn’t like that. It isn’t something that happens inside the bug, or inside us. If intelligence is anything, it is an appropriate and autonomous responsiveness to the world around us. Flexible, real-time sensitivity to actual situations is what we have in mind when we talk about intelligence. And this means that intelligence is always going to be not just a matter of degree, but one of interpretation.

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February 18, 2011 Comments Off Short URL Alva Noë, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, computation, computational intelligence, computationalism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, IBM's Watson, intentionality, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, rodney brooks, situated cognition

Here is the wonderfully lucid and often provocative Maggie Boden being interviewed. Check out her monumental Mind as Machine. Few, if any, are better placed to offer such a wide perspective of this wildly exciting field.

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February 1, 2011 Comments Off Short URL artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Maggie Boden, mind as machine, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology

Andy Clark Interview

Here is an interview conducted by Howard Rheingold, as he says motivated by Andy’s Natural-Born Cyborgs. Note Andy’s reference to stigmergic (swarm) behavior though he doesn’t actually use the term. (Via David Livingstone Smith and Mirko Farina).

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November 7, 2010 Comments Off Short URL Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, Chalmers, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, global brain, Howard Rheingold, natural-born cyborgs, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, world wide web

Brain Theory: Jeff Hawkins Interview

Jeff being interviewed a while back on the launch of his excellent On Intelligence. See his TED talk here.

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November 1, 2010 Comments Off Short URL artificial intelligence, brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, extended mind, jeff hawkins, prediction

Swarm Intelligence – free downloads

The publisher of the relatively new journal Swarm Intelligence has made all content freely accessible. I’m not sure how long this offer is good for but it’s an opportunity to sample some of the best work being done in this field. Of course, the editorial board is a “Whose Who” of swarm theorists.

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October 20, 2010 Comments Off Short URL active externalism, aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, computational psychology, computer simulations, emergence, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker

My talk “Knowledge Wants to be Free: From Hayek to the Hacker” for the 2010 Wirth Conference at Simon Fraser University October 15 & 16, 2010 on “Austrian Views on Experts & Epistemic Monopolies.” I think the talk went down OK. Good to see some old friends and make new friends. Thanks to Wirth for sponsoring the event, to our local SFU host Laurent Dobuzinskis and to Roger Koppl and Steve Horwitz for organizing it.

All the participants

A conference room with a view. Delightfully unusual weather through.

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October 16, 2010 Comments Off Short URL active externalism, adam smith, Adams & Aizawa, advances in austrian econmics, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, austrian economics, collective intentionality, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, free-flow of knowledge, hayek, iterative knowledge, open access, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, richard stallman, science, scientific publishing, social constructivism, social epistemology, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, systemsoriented social epistemology, The Knowledge Hub for Pathology

Principia Mathematica

On hearing that Simon’s “thinking machine” computer program Logic Theorist not only validated Russell and Whitehead’s axioms and theorems (but even proved one more elegantly), Russell replied: “I am delighted to know that Principia Mathematica can now be done by machinery. I [only] wish Whitehead and I had known of this possibility before we both wasted ten years doing it by hand.”

Cited in Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America by Hunter Crowther-Heyck