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cognition, cognitive science, collaboration, complexity, computational intelligence, David Kirsh, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, stigmergic, stigmergy, Wayne McGregor

Cognition and dance

How do the dancers visualize his cues? How do they respond to one another in the group dynamic? How do they remember? And how does he? There’s a fascinating experiment reported in the LA Times (and blog) on distributed cognition being run by David Kirsh in association with maestro choreographer Wayne McGregor. Of course, the reason the…

Andy Clark, Anthony Chimero, concept of mind, Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, ryle

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 Though published several…

aggregation, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, leslie marsh, Mass Collaboration, neurophilosophy, particle swarm optimization, situated cognition, social epistemology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Stigmergy Wiki

True to the spirit of stigmergy I was pleased to learn of a wiki dedicated to all things stigmergical – StigmergyLive.   

hayek, Inevitability Thesis, leslie marsh, Marx, political philosophy, Road to Serfdom, Samuelson, socialism

Hayek’s Inevitability Thesis

Hayek’s notion of cognitive closure, a mark of the human condition, can be ameliorated if the social and artifactual world functions as a kind of distributed extra-neural memory store manifest as dynamic traditions, part of the resources for acting, thinking or communicating. This cognitive¬epistemological¬liberty tripartite is closely related to a long-standing bone of contention in…

alvin goldman, coherentism, david armstrong, epistemology, idealism, ignoratio elenchi, leslie marsh, michael freeden, modality, modernity, modes, Nozick, oakeshott, podoksik, political philosophy, postmodern, quine, ramsey, relativism, rorty, sellars, terry nardin, truth

Oakeshott’s Relativism

Attributions of relativism to Oakeshott are twofold: The first, and the more common attribution, is from the general perspective of viewing Oakeshott as a postmodern relativist. The second, more technical aspect and less familiar attribution, involves the assumption that Oakeshott was a coherentist.  I examine the second view first. On this assumption it is standard to…