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Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, david chalmers, distributed cognition, extended mind, journal of mind and behavior, Justin Fisher, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Supersizing the Mind

Mind and Behavior: Autumn 2008

The latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior is now available. I especially want to bring your attention to the Critical Notice on Fred Adams’ and Ken Aizawa’s The Bounds of Cognition, a review essay superbly executed by Justin Fisher. Requests for reprints should be sent to: Professor Justin C. Fisher, Department of Philosophy, Hyer…

cognitive science, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, new england institute, Paul Roscoe, Richard Wrangham, Ruth Garrett Millikan

New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies

Check out the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Studies iTunes U site. Click the launch bar: once it loads click the NEI box and at the bottom right hand side of the first category, click the box that looks like this: You will find Ruth Garrett Millikan’s recent lecture. Richard Wrangham Paul Roscoe

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A Smorgasbord of “Situated” Projects

There is an excellent collection of papers comprising the latest issue of Topoi (Volume 28, Number 1 / March, 2009). I assume that because of the introduction “Mind Embodied, Embedded, Enacted: One Church or Many?” this issue was pulled together by Julian Kiverstein and Andy Clark. They set up the issue by posing the following…

cognition, cognitive science, collaboration, complexity, computational intelligence, David Kirsh, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, stigmergic, stigmergy, Wayne McGregor

Cognition and dance

How do the dancers visualize his cues? How do they respond to one another in the group dynamic? How do they remember? And how does he? There’s a fascinating experiment reported in the LA Times (and blog) on distributed cognition being run by David Kirsh in association with maestro choreographer Wayne McGregor. Of course, the reason the…

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Stigmergy Wiki

True to the spirit of stigmergy I was pleased to learn of a wiki dedicated to all things stigmergical – StigmergyLive.   

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Ants

A human brain has 10,000,000,000 cells so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human. If the human population is 6,760,000,000 (2009) and the ant population is 1 quadrillion 1,000,000,000,000,000 (1999). If my mathematics is correct the brain cell count of the ant population is nearly 4 times that…

artificial intelligence, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, computational intelligence, ethics, machine morality, moral philosophy, philosophy now, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots

Metal Guru

  The latest issue of Philosophy Now features a collection of articles on “machine morality”.  The Challenge of Moral Machines Wendell Wallach tells us what the basic problems are. Four Kinds of Ethical Robots James H. Moor defines different ways in which machines could be moral. How Machines Can Advance Ethics Susan Leigh Anderson and…

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Clark’s reply to Fodor

This hot off the press. Jerry Fodor, you may recall, reviewed Andy Clark’s latest work Supersizing the Mind in the London Review of Books. In the latest issue, Clark uses the Letters section to respond. As this is a general link I paste in Clark’s letter below.   Letters Vol. 31 No. 6 · Cover…

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Merging of Mind and Machine

                        Ray Kurzweil’s article from last year’s Scientific American special on robotics is reprinted again here.