Natural-born Cyborgs
A copy of my review of Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs is now available through MindPapers.
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Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition
My recent co-authored paper now available to download through MindPapers. The abstract: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex…
The Outsourced Brain
A journalistic take on what is essentially active externalism or the thesis of the extended mind. David Brooks (yes, THAT David Brooks) implicitly refers to notions of collaborative filtering, swarming, stigmergy, and even memetics. Of course, one suspects that Brooks has only the slighest conceptual inkling of what’s going on. Notions of the extended mind enjoy currency both in academic and popular literature: the ‘‘global…
MindPapers
The best online mind resource just got better. Dave Chalmers, in association with David Bourget, have just launched an upgraded version called MindPapers. The announcement from Chalmers. If ever there was a project that meets the needs of a community, it is this. Chalmers has done us an immense service.
Tim Crane on mind and body
A brief introductory, though opinionated, audio piece on mind and body with philosopher of mind and superb expositor, Tim Crane. Made possible courtesy of Philosophy Bites, a nice resource with several other introductory philosophical discussions.
Publishing Hyperbole
I for one am very pleased that consciousness has become a topic for discussion amongst the literati. I welcome the accessible writing of David Armstrong, Susan Blackmore, Andy Clark, Tim Crane, Dan Dennett, Gerald Edelman and Stephen Pinker to name but a few of the more prominent popular expositors. But I cringe at the dreadful hyperbole…
Can we know our own minds?
Dennett on top fighting form.
Victim of the Brain
A 1988 docudrama about “the ideas of Douglas Hofstadter“. The protagonist is Dutch director Piet Hoenderdos. The film features interviews with a youngish Hofstadter and a never young looking Dan Dennett :) (90 minutes).
Cognitive Science meets Social Epistemology
Cognitive Science and FactCheck.org, or Why We (Still) Do What We Do The following article is culled from Annenberg Fact Check (if this is the sort of discussion you find interesting, why not check out the journal EPISTEME. Articles such as Alvin Goldman on the epistemic failure of the FBI regarding 9/11 and Roger Koppl on why…
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