Robotic Teaching
A video about robot teachers from The New York Times.
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John Haugeland
As most will already know, John Haugeland passed away this week.
Conscious machines
Here’s an article in The Philosopher’s Magazine by Igor Aleksander, one of 50 big issues selected to commemorate the 50th issue of TPM.
Chalmers’ Locke Lectures II and III
Lecture 2 (12th May): The Cosmoscope Argument [Handout] [MP3] [Slides] Lecture 3 (19th May): The Case for A Priori Scrutability [Handout] [MP3] [Slides] See here for lecture 1
Synthetic Genome
Here is the Science announcement that is causing quite a stir. This is “a defining moment in the history of biology and biotechnology,” says Mark Bedau, a philosopher at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and editor of the scientific journal Artificial Life. “It represents an important technical milestone in the new field of synthetic genomics,” says yeast biologist Jef Boeke of Johns Hopkins University…
Embodiment, Stigmergy, and Swarm Intelligence
Here is a chapter from a book by Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (all of the Biological Computation Project, University of Alberta) that has just come my way and is entitled From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots. In fact, all the chapters in draft are freely available to be downloaded…
Extended Mind – Extended Time
Since we’ve been waiting for almost four years!!! for the publication of this collection of papers attached to The Extended Mind II conference held at The University of Hertfordshire in July of ’06, it’s arrival is going to be somewhat underwhelming on the grounds that: (a) most of the papers have been in circulation for…
Online Swarm Resource
Check out swarm grandee Guy Theraulaz’ list of papers available online.
“Empiricalizing” Heidegger
Tony Chemero has kindly sent me these links to a paper he, Dobromir Dotov and Lin Nie have just had published. The first link is to the full paper entitled “A Demonstration of the Transition from Ready-to-Hand to Unready-to-Hand.” The second link is to a popularized version of the aforementioned paper entitled “Your Computer Really Is…
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