Here are the publisher’s details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper “Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre“
The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order
February 8, 2010
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“Stigmergy” Enters the Poetic Imagination
January 28, 2010Poet Tim Kahl reads a poem of his entitled “Stigmergy.”
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Embodied Economics
January 22, 2010Here’s a freely available download of an article entitled “Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making” from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The article references many of the major embodiment theorists and refreshingly there is much on Hayek and of course The Sensory Order.
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Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre
January 9, 2010Here is the uncorrected proof of my essay – do not cite.
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The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics
December 21, 2009A new book by Ana Cordeiro dos Santos has come to my attention. Aside from the title which caught my eye – The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics – what recommends checking the book out is that Ana’s pedigree is notable – her PhD was supervised by Uskali Mäki and Jack Vromen, both top-draw minds – the former kindly contributing to an early issue of EPISTEME. Economics is a growth area from the perspective of social epistemology – and rightly so.
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Hayek in Mind
December 10, 2009
Here is an interview with the editors of Advances in Austrian Economics.
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Swarm
December 7, 2009Swarm grandee Guy Theraulaz presents a lecture on Biological Principles of Swarm Intelligence.
Other salient talks available on this site include:
Evolutionary Algorithms by Adam Prügel-Bennett
Dance evolution by Jeff Balogh, Gregg Dubbin, Michael Do
Science, Technology, and Applications of Swarm Robotics by Dario Floreano
The Mathematics of Emergence and Flocking by Stephen Smale
Fuzzy Logic by Michael Berthold
Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization in Partitional Clustering by Thiemo Krink
Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks by Mark Newman
Information Transfer in Moving Animal Groups by David J. T. Sumpter
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Small is beautiful
December 4, 2009Over at Vitorino Ramos’ ever thoughtful blog is a post extolling the virtues of the “small”. The point is twofold:
First, the superb detail afforded by the photographs that Vitorino has assembled shows a rather complexly “designed” creature – a design that belies the supposedly simple life-form that ants are typically taken to be. The engineering challenges required to even roughly approximate such creatures is formidable.
Second, the study of ant sociality is of central interest to researchers in A.I. – the concept of stigmergy offers those of us with an interest in complex systems (human sociality being the paradigm) – a very fertile vein of inquiry.
So, next time you are about to snuff out this creature, at the very least, stop and spare a thought for this creature – we have much to learn from the small and the “simple.” To adapt Shakespeare:
As ants (flies) to wanton boys are we to th’ gods,
They kill us for their sport.
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Momento’s Revenge
November 24, 2009I’ve read just about everything by Andy Clark – as I’ve said several times before he is a superb stylist and is philosophy at its most lively. Some years back I read his paper Memento’s Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Extended Mind. I don’t recall having seen the film that Andy references in his paper; I might have seen clips. Anyway, what’s interesting is that in the discussion after my recent presentation entitled Extended Cognitive Systems to a bunch of economists who didn’t know of the famous Clark-Chalmers Inga/Otto thought experiment (that I freely adapted in my talk) – they got the point so quickly and asked if I’d seen this film. So thanks to the two German scholars who brought it up (sorry I don’t recall your names) I’m now motivated to check out what I anticipate will be an intelligent film.
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Hayek Interview
October 9, 2009Here is a transcript of a 15.25-hour interview completed under the auspices of the UCLA Oral History Program and the Pacific Academy of Advanced Studies. I haven’t read the piece so I can’t vouch for its quality (I don’t recognise the interviewers). Anyway, one would hope that there will be some interest within the 1,046 pages. Download here (pdf: 19.73 MB).
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