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Extended Mind: Special Section in TEOREMA

Here is a bunch of extended mind papers in the Spring issue of Teorema.

ants, collaborative filtering, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, recommendation algorithm, spontaneous orders, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, world wide web

Web Stigmergy

Stigmergy yet again – well, there is no escaping it. While I wouldn’t call stigmergy a new paradigm (that’s too pompous – in any event, paradigms only have shape in a historical sense), stigmergy is one of the most fruitful mechanisms around that speaks to distributed cognition. Check out this paper nicely titled “Standing on the…

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Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

collaboration, collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Yang Chenghan

Stigmergic Simulations

Here are some terrific stigmergic simulations by architectural student Yang Chenghan that I chanced across: The first is a 3D simulation deploying 45-70 agents (source code) The second a 2D simulation deploying 20-30 agents (source code) Here are some great synthetic stigmergic stills Yang has created.

Alva 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…

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Swarm Intelligence: special issue

The new issue of Swarm Intelligence is now available. The excerpt below from the editors’ introduction – they may not realise it, but it this is as Hayekian as one can get: Swarm Cognition is a novel multidisciplinary approach that encompasses research in neurosciences, cognitive psychology, social ethology and swarm intelligence, with the aim of studying cognition…

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Stigmergy group

My collaborator Marge Doyle and I have set up a LinkedIn group for the many academic disciplines that now have an interest in stigmergy. Go to LinkedIn and search LinkedIn groups for “stigmergy.”