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Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
I’ve just come across this article by Andy with a follow-up here.
Some recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience suggests that it is indeed the frugal use of our native neural capacity (the inventive use of restricted “neural bandwidth,” if you will) that explains how brains like ours so elegantly make sense of noisy and ambiguous sensory input.
Ignorance is Bliss
Here’s an article in The Economist that my colleague, Roger Koppl, who has done terrific work in the field of forensic evidence, alerted me to. The article mentions Itiel Dror who I’ve been in correspondence with though Roger. I know Itiel’s work through his co-edited Cognition Distributed. Here is his co-authored “extended mind” chapter.
Stigmergy: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science
“Stigmergy” has finally made it into a mainstream philosophy reference work. It is mentioned in the chapter entitled “Reasoning and Rationality” written by Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg.
Colin, by the way, is co-authoring a paper for a themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research on stigmergy Marge Doyle and I are editing.
Music of the Hemispheres
Check out philosopher Dan Lloyd’s film project. On the film site there are several videos of different brain states worth watching. Dan is, of course, no stranger to using other modalities to communicate his thoughts on consciousness – his book Radiant Cool is a classic in the genre.
Inside each of us, at every moment, a symphony plays. It’s the symphony of consciousness, but at the same time it’s the symphony of the brain.
– Dan Lloyd
Consciousness: Charlie Rose
The Charlie Rose Brain Series 2: Consciousness with Eric Kandel of Columbia University, Patricia Churchland of University of California, San Diego, Stanislas Dehaene of College De France, Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College and Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia.
Two versions the extended mind thesis
Here’s a draft of a forthcoming paper I chanced across.
Strawson reviews Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
Galen Strawson reviews Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow in The Guardian.
Hayek and the “Use of Knowledge in Society”
Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
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Seeing What You Mean
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Knowledge Has Always Been Networked
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Behaviourism vs. Phenomenology
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The metaepistemology of knowing-how
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The New Theories of Moral Sentiments
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Nature, nurture and liberal values
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Andy Clark – “Do Thrifty Brains Make Better Minds?”
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The neuroscience of happiness
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Patricia Churchland
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Enaction and Dance
