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Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre

My published article is now available from here. Check out the full table of contents for this volume.

artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, complexity, computational intelligence, computer simulations, consciousness, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, eric baum, evolution, evolutionary psychology, hayek, hayek machine, intropection, meaningful modules, Occam's razor, philosophy of mind, singularity, understanding, what is thought

What is understanding?

Here’s a singularity summit talk by Eric Baum. Baum is known to me as the author of What is Thought? and in particular his discussion of his notion of “The Hayek Machine” as set out in his  “Toward a Model of Intelligence as an Economy of Agents” Machine Learning 35, pp. 155-185 (1999).

3-D, Anders Persson, autopsy, csi, CT, economist, evidence, evidence and law, postmortem, Virtual Autopsy

Virtual Autopsy

This article from the Economist Dec 10th 2009 . PERFORMING a postmortem on a murder victim can take days, delaying any criminal investigation. Moreover, pathologists sometimes get only one chance to look for clues when dissecting a body. But Anders Persson, director of Linköping University’s centre for medical image science and visualisation in Sweden, hopes…

Andries Engelbrecht, artificial intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Jim Kennedy, networks, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Check out the Editorial (and of course the full issue) for the special issue on Particle Swarm Optimization from the new journal Swarm Intelligence. This issue is edited by two of the most prominent luminaries in the field – Andries Engelbrecht and Jim Kennedy. The former is the author of Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence; the latter,…

bradley, collingwood, epistemology, experience and its modes, hegel, idealism, metaphysics, oakeshott, philosophy, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, qualia, sellars, sensation

Old Reviews of Experience and its Modes

Here are two reviews of Experience and its Modes that I’ve only recently come across. The former is exceedingly warm; the latter, not surprisingly, very dismissive since it is reviewed in North America’s premier philosophy journal. I don’t mean to imply that The Journal of Philosophy is unduly critical – merely, that philosophy journals are,…