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The Epistemology of Mass Collaboration

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Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, distributed cognition, embodiment, extended mind, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, robert rupert

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

I want to give an early plug for Rob Rupert’s forthcoming book Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind. Though I haven’t read the book, I have read pretty much everything else Rob has written. Rob is one of the most serious-minded and one of the most talented philosophers around. Rob doesn’t merely crank out “clever” stuff…

call for papers, conference, Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, oakeshott, political philosophy, politics

CFP: Michael Oakeshott Association Conference

Michael Oakeshott Association Conference November 12-14, 2009 Baylor University Waco, Texas 2009 marks the fifth meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group founded in 2001 to encourage the study of one of the 20th century’s most important political philosophers. Previous conferences have taken place at the London School of Economics, Colorado College, and the…

active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, computational intelligence, consciousness, Evan Thompson, extended mind, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, psychology, Putnam, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, susan hurley

Out of Our Heads

Hot on the heels of Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind comes yet another “extended mind” type book with a colorful title Out of Our Heads, the writer Alva Noë. Noë is one of the sharpest guys around – his last book Action in Perception has established itself as a recent classic. Great to see the…

artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy

Another Stigmergic Application

Here’s an article that talks about using mechanical drones to efficiently monitor the vast area that is Australia’s bush fire zone. The article mentions Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and stigmergy – two notions that are of particular interest to my work.   The article: Learning from birds to study fires on the fly

chi sao, embodiment, occam, phenomenology, wing chun

Wing Chun

It seems to me that the practice of Wing Chun cries out for a philosophical and empirical discussion – something I have yet to come across. Specifically, Wing Chun’s emphasis on “bodily awareness” or sensitivity along with an Occam-like approach to movement, would be of interest to the embodiment and phenomenology literature. See the Chi…