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November 10, 2011artificial intelligence, C, computation, computational intelligence, computer science, Dennis Ritchie, John McCarthy, LISP, programming, steve jobs, UNIX

Ritchie and McCarthy

With all the hipster hype accorded to Steve Jobs on his passing, there are two names that are being overlooked – Dennis Ritchie and John McCarthy. Here is their obituary from The Economist.

October 11, 2011ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive science, collaboration, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, John Graves, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy

Stigmergy and the Wealth of Networks

John Graves shares his worth with Wiki-to-Text and Stigmergy & Wealth of Networks for a Learning2gether session. StigmergySwarm intelligence

September 7, 2011artificial intelligence, cognitive science, consciousness, dualism, John O'Dea, neuron, neurophilosophy, Neurophysics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, qualia, Rex Welshon

Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness

Here’s a Notre Dame Philosophical Review of Rex Welshon’s Philosophy, Neuroscience and Consciousness.

September 4, 2011active externalism, active perception, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Eleanor Rosch, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, ezequiel di paolo, francesco varela, Michael Wheeler, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, robotics, Shaun Gallagher, Sherrilyn Roush, situated cognition, The Embodied Mind

The Embodied Mind: 20 years on

Commemorating a landmark book The Future of the Embodied Mind The summer school focuses on cognition in artificial and biological systems from a theoretical perspective that considers embodiment, situatedness, and action-relatedness as key elements in understanding and implementing cognitive systems. The school will be held in San Sebastián, Spain 5th – 9th September 2011 The school will…

August 18, 2011Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, consciousness, cyborgs, extended mind, externalism, mind waves, music, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind

Thinking Music

Here’s an experiment (I’m assuming it’s legit) brought to my attention by the blog Artificialites.

August 13, 2011artificial intelligence, biology, cognition, cybernetics, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary biology, francesco varela, Humberto Maturana, Mind in Life, philosophy of mind

Autopoiesis and Cognition

Maturana and Varela’s classic Autopoiesis and Cognition is freely available here (H/T to Paul Loader). What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and…

May 8, 2011artificial intelligence, austrian economics, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, complex adaptive systems, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, epistemic systems, epistemology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hayek, mind body, neural networks, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, socialism, sociobiology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

April 11, 2011artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, ginger campbell, Lawrence Shapiro, mark rowlands, philosophy of mind, robert rupert, situated cognition

Rupert Reviews Rowlands/Interview with Shapiro

These two items via Ken Aizawa’s blog. 1. Rob Rupert reviews Mark Rowlands’ latest 2. Ginger Campbell interviews Larry Shapiro (check out the companion episodes Ginger mentions)

February 25, 2011artificial intelligence, brain science, Brian Christian, computation, computational intelligence, consciousness, john lucas, Loebner Prize, mind body, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, robotics, robots, the "hard" problem, Turing, turing machine, turing test

Mind vs Machine

Here is an article from the latest issue of The Atlantic.

February 18, 2011Alva Noë, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, computation, computational intelligence, computationalism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, IBM's Watson, intentionality, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, rodney brooks, situated cognition

AI as applied philosophy

Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine. Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neither. Or, most intriguingly of all, maybe it is both? Is there an experimentum crucis that we might perform to settle a question like this once and for all? No. Intelligence isn’t like that. It isn’t something that…