With all the hipster hype accorded to Steve Jobs on his passing, there are two names that are being overlooked – Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy. Here is their obituary from The Economist.
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Trailing Hayek in Mind
Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion.
CONTENTS
“SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY
Leslie Marsh
“MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK
Walter Weimer
PART I: NEUROSCIENCE
HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Joaquín Fuster
THE NON-CARTESIAN VIEW AND THE BRAIN
Erol Başar
PART II: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
HAYEK’S QUESTION: HOW CAN PARTS OF THE WORLD COME TO MODEL THE REST OF THE WORLD
Joshua Rust
HAYEK’S SPECULATIVE PSYCHOLOGY, THE NEUROSCIENCE OF VALUE ESTIMATION AND THE BASIS OF NORMATIVE INDIVIDUALISM
Don Ross
HAYEK, POPPER AND THE CAUSAL THEORY OF THE MIND
Edward Feser
PEIRCE AND HAYEK ON THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF COGNITION AND SENSATION
James Wible
HAYEK’S POST-POSITIVIST EMPIRICISM: EXPERIENCE BEYOND SENSATION
Jan Willem Lindemans
A NOTE ON THE INFLUENCE OF MACH’S PSYCHOLOGY IN HAYEK’S PSYCHOLOGY
Giandomenica Becchio
PART III: MIND AND SOCIALITY
THE EMERGENCE OF THE MIND: HAYEK’S ACCOUNT OF MENTAL PHENOMENA AS A PRODUCT OF SPONTANEOUS PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL ORDERS
Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo
HAYEK’S SELF-ORGANIZING MENTAL ORDER AND FOLK-PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES OF THE MIND
Chiara Chelini
BEYOND COMPLEXITY: CAN THE SENSORY ORDER DEFEND THE LIBERAL SELF?
Chor-yung Cheung
COGNITIVE OPENING AND CLOSING: TOWARDS AN EXPLORATION OF THE MENTAL WORLD OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Thierry Aimar
GETTING TO THE HAYEKIAN NETWORK
Troy Camplin
Stigmergic Bridge
Coherence with concept and algorithm
A network bridge which connects multiple points on ground and a subway station. The circulation, structure and enclosure are based on stigmergy algorithm operated on three different scales.
Arguments based on stigmergy
Articulation of materialization is achieved by orienting components to structure and enclosure “pheromone”. The components gradually change size and color from structure to enclosure, forming a solid entity.
A few months ago I came across the work of architectural student Yang Chenghan. It’s amazing that I have not come across any other architects deploying stigmergic algorithms – one would think that the concept would be part and part of an architect’s conceptual toolbox. Good for Yang – I’d imagine this guy has a bright career ahead of him. Here are some new images of what he terms a stigmergic bridge.
Self-organized cooperation between robotic swarms
Check out this new paper from Swarm Intelligence.
Stigmergy Installation
Check out this installation supported by the Welcome Trust.
People walking along Euston Road will encounter an unusually arresting reflection of themselves in a new light installation, ‘Reflex’, created by rAndom International.
The work inhabits the windows of the Wellcome Trust as though it were a living organism. Reacting to viewers, passers-by and traffic on Euston Road, ‘Reflex’ produces mesmerising flows of light, inviting a physical response to the building.
The installation’s swarming behaviour is based on an algorithm developed to emulate the collective decision making that we see in large groups of creatures such as birds or ants.
The work is constructed from hundreds of brass rods and thousands of LEDs arranged on small custom chips. Their movement is based on programmes that aim to simulate complex natural phenomena. ‘Reflex’ recreates “stigmergy”, whereby traces left by random actions stimulate further actions that build on one another, leading to the spontaneous emergence of apparently patterned activity. rAndom’s work allows for error, experimentation and unpredictability, and ‘Reflex’ encourages its viewers to see how they can influence the work.
David Rumelhart (1942-2011)
Rumelhart was enormously important in the 1980s in reviving this neural network approach to language and cognition
Steven Pinker
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Stigmergic Simulations
Here are some terrific stigmergic simulations by architectural student Yang Chenghan that I chanced across:
The first is a 3D simulation deploying 45-70 agents (source code)
The second a 2D simulation deploying 20-30 agents (source code)
Here are some great synthetic stigmergic stills Yang has created.
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