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akamai, data visualization, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, edge platform, internet, internet traffic, network theory, optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, streaming

Visualizing the internet: Akamai’s network traffic

Check out Akamai‘s data visualizations for the internet traffic it handles. Though pretty cool seeing this in their Cambridge control room when I visited, I was told it was more for show than anything else. Check out their online vizualizations page. Also, do check out their EdgePlatform blurb, a superb example of distributed computing.

amazon, cognitive science, collaborative filtering, consciousness, Dialogue on Consciousness, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, recommendation algorithm, robert howell, stigmergic, stigmergy, torin alter

A Dialogue on Consciousness/Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm

Thanks to Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm I chanced upon this book. I haven’t read it yet but it promises that it would provide a light (though hardly condescending) interlude between other drier and more technical works and the more stilted fictional attempts on which to hang the issues. And any work that makes philosophical approaches to…

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, complexity, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, david chalmers, David Spurrett, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, john sutton, mark rowlands, Michael Wheeler, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, richard menary, robert rupert, robert wilson, Shaun Gallagher, situated cognition, social cognition, Supersizing the Mind, susan hurley

Extended Mind – Extended Time

Since we’ve been waiting for almost four years!!! for the publication of this collection of papers attached to The Extended Mind II conference held at The University of Hertfordshire in July of ’06, it’s arrival is going to be somewhat underwhelming on the grounds that: (a) most of the papers have been in circulation for…

ants, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Mark Moffett, national geographic, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Adventures among Ants

As some of you will know, I have posts on ants from time to time. The study of ants has a great deal of relevance to the computational intelligence community. I want to trail the forthcoming book by National Geographic photographer extraordinaire and entomologist Mark Moffett. See the book’s dedicated website.

category mistake, concept of mind, darkness at noon, Descartes, dualism, ghost in the machine, intellectualist legend, Koestler, Michael Scammell, mind body, ryle, Ryle’s regress, suicide, the economist, the police

Koestler Biography

There is a glowing review in The Economist of Michael Scammell’s biography of Koestler. I do recall that the manner of Koestler’s death caused a great deal of controversy at the time. My knowledge of Koestler’s work is confined to his Darkness at Noon – given to me my an anti-Stalinist (and committed socialist) friend of…