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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…

ants, bees, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, evolution, evolutionary biology, New England Complex Systems Institute, philosophy of social science, seed, spontanous orders, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Yaneer Bar-Yam

The Hive Mind

                  The latest issue of Seed features an article entitled “The Hive Mind” by Benjamin Phelan:  The selfless behavior of ants, bees, and wasps has confounded scientists for more than a century. Is the question a red herring or the key to a new evolutionary synthesis?  Speaking…

david livingstone smith, new england institute, Paul Bach-y-Rita, philosophy of biology, Ruth Garrett Millikan, Stephen Kercel

Ruth Millikan Lecture

The post-lecture reception for Ruth at NEI.  L-R: NEI director, David Livingtone Smith, Ruth, MWQ, NEI co-director Rob Haskell. Ruth graciously dealing with her fan club. See Larry Shapiro’s wonderful “intellectual love-letter.” Larry writes: Recently I was asked to deliver a comic paper about Ruth Millikan on the twenty fifth anniversary of her Language, Thought,…