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Swarm on the Beeb: Nature’s Incredible Invasions

The BBC are broadcasting a two-part programme on swarm behaviour. It’s worth checking it out for the terrific footage – not having had the sound on, I don’t know if anything conceptually interesting is discussed. I will revisit the programme with sound soon. Click here to view part 1.

cognitive science, consciousness, extended mind, Leonard Angel, Lynne Rudder Baker, mark rowlands, Matthew Day, religion, teed rockwell, Zygon

Zygon: Extended Mind Symposium

In anticipation of the symposium on the Extended Mind that I’m editing for Zygon, I can now make available the abstracts. Mark Rowlands THE EXTENDED MIND The extended mind is the thesis that some mental – typically cognitive – processes are partly composed of operations performed by cognizing organisms on the world around them. The…