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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…

Andy Clark, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, concept of mind, david chalmers, distributed cognition, extended mind, externalism, mark rowlands, Michael Wheeler, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, psychology, robert rupert, robert wilson

Extended X: Recarving the Biological and Cognitive Joints of Nature

Mike Wheeler has put online some draft chapters dealing with extended mind from his forthcoming work. If you enjoyed Mike’s last book Reconstructing the Cognitive World: the Next Step as I did, then this new work promises much.

Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, brain, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, consciousness, david chalmers, Dennett, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, folk psychology, frank Jackson, functionalism, mind body, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, psychology, qualia, representationalism, Supersizing the Mind, the "hard" problem, tim bayne

The Character of Consciousness

Surely the biggest publishing event in mind – well since this one.

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, Anthony Chimero, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Dobromir Dotov, embodiment, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, Fred Adams, Heidegger, hubert dreyfus, Ken Aizawa, Lin Nie, Michael Wheeler, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, Rick Dale, robert wilson, Shaun Gallagher, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

“Empiricalizing” Heidegger

Tony Chemero has kindly sent me these links to a paper he, Dobromir Dotov and Lin Nie have just had published. The first link is to the full paper entitled “A Demonstration of the Transition from Ready-to-Hand to Unready-to-Hand.” The second link is to a popularized version of the aforementioned paper entitled “Your Computer Really Is…

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Ryle

ryle, v. to give examples. “He ryles on and on without ever daring a conclusion.” Hence, n. An example. “His argument was elucidated by a variety of apt ryles.” “The original ryle has been chisholmed beyond recognition.” (2) A variety of smooth, lucid, thin ice that forms on bogs. The Philosophical Lexicon I chanced upon…

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Mind in Life

I’ve just completed reading Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, a work which I heartily endorse as the best statement yet of the enactivist theory of mind. I especially like his taking on the philosopher’s zombie and his chapter on Empathy and Enculturation. Last, but by no means least,…