Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile. Fix me a toddy, Lola, and we’ll sit on the gallery of Tara and you play a tune and we’ll watch evening…
This special issue of Cognitive Systems Research is intended as a follow-up and a companion to an earlier issue devoted to the theme of stigmergy, what we termed stigmergy 3.0 ( Doyle & Marsh, 2013). It reinforces the idea that the observation and the theorizing of the mechanism of stigmergy is no longer the sole…
“Throw Me Something, Mister!”: Mardi Gras is much more than a debaucherous party. The exchange of gifts in parades and parties binds New Orleans’ diverse communities together. The importance of giving for its own sake, rather than for prestige or other benefits, is emphasized by krewe anonymity. Mardi Gras law requires that krewe members wear masks…
Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon Artificial intelligenceBounded Rationalitycomplexitycomputational intelligenceDecision makingEconomicsFernand GobetHerbert SimonMarcin MiłkowskiMarco NovaresePsychologyrationalismsatisficing
A reminder about our Twitter Q&A tomorrow, Monday 15 February at 8am PST/4pm GMT. The list of participants below, along with the titles of their contributions to the collection — if you can’t join us, a link will provided soon after to an omnibus version: @markpingle — Boundedly Rational Decision-Making under Certainty and Uncertainty: Some Reflections on Herbert Simon @mmarconov…
This 1989 BBC Horizon documentary (see below) is an absolute gem. I must have seen it in the day but viewing it again with the benefit of the intervening quarter century, is so rewarding. It’s television at its best — very tightly presented, it is neither pretentious nor dumbed down as so many programmes on…
As Plato said, “children’s passions should not always be restrained with severity, nor should they be habitually petted and caressed.” Wisdom consists in finding the medium between these extremes. ***** How unstable is fortune in this life! ***** Pliny rightly stated that “fear is a very unfaithful teacher.” Fernández de LizardiMexicophilosophical literatureThe Mangy Parrot
The second in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Robert D. Rupert One can hardly underestimate Herbert Simon’s influence on contemporary cognitive science and empirically oriented philosophy of mind. Working with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon and the Rand Corporation, he wrote Logic Theorist and General Problem…
I’m very much looking forward to viewing this documentary (first video) on the genius that is Ennio Morricone. At 87 he’s still going strong and is sharp as a whistle. To my mind, he’s the most Wagnerian of 20th Century composers. Beyond the Morricone-Leone collaboration only one other classic collaboration springs to mind and that’s the Herzog-Popol Vuh-(Florian Fricke)…
I think that the neglect of Newman as a philosopher is lamentable; Newman is an original thinker, one whose philosophical thought warrants attention for its own merits. An indirect goal of this paper is to establish this claim. Download here. Good on you Joe! Newman’s Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent to my mind is…
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