Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexity. As a social epistemologist I have a particular interest in knowledge networks and social networks. The images that draw upon biology for inspiration are particular compelling – on aesthetic grounds alone. complexity
Here is the fully published special issue of Cognitive Systems Research Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008 2. Introduction to the special issue “Perspectives on Social Cognition” Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008, Pages 1-4 Leslie Marsh and Christian Onof 3. Functionalism and mental boundaries Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues…
This from today’s Jerusalem Post. What’s particularly interesting is that were a biological computer a real possibility, this would vindicate the extended mind thesis. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of TAU’s faculty of exact sciences and his research assistant Dr. Itay Baruchi were chosen for their innovative work in brain research and their success in creating a memory-…
A copy of my review of Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs is now available through MindPapers.
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…
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…
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.
This is an article I culled from Scientific American.com. What struck me about this article is that it features the work of Joaquín Fuster, one of the very few first-order neuroscientists who appreciate Hayek’s proto-connectionism (the other being Edelman). Fuster really deserves to be better known within the philosophy of mind community – his writing is highly accessible. I thoroughly…
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