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The New Science of the Mind

Here’s a soon to be released book written by Mark Rowlands one of the major extended mind/situated cognition players. Let’s hope the proofing is significantly better than what has been coming out of MIT Press of late. This book will be reviewed by Michael Madary in The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

Bobby McFerrin, cognitive science, Daniel Levitin, Jamshed Barucha, John Schaefer, Lawrence Parsons, mri and music, music, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, world science festival

Notes and Neurons

World Science Festival featuring Bobby McFerrin, best known as the writer and performer of one of my favourite songs Don’t worry be happy. Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence…

active externalism, active perception, anti-representationalist, artificial intelligence, Brian Dupuis, bricks to brains, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, computational intelligence, computer simulations, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, extended mind, feedback, lego, Michael Dawson, Michael Wilson, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, robotics, robots, situated cognition, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

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…