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artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, cognitive systems research, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social epistemology, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Top of the Pops (well relatively speaking)

Sad as it is, we were chuffed to discover that our co-authored paper is the 57th most popular paper in Chalmers’ MindPapers database out of a total of 18,477 papers.

buddhism, byron kaldis, consciousness, corey abel, creationist science, elizabeth corey, evolution, ignoratio elenchi, intelligent design, leslie marsh, michael oakeshott, mind body, modality, oakeshott, owen flanagan, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, podoksik, political philosophy, politics, religion, the "hard" problem, timothy fuller, Zygon

Oakeshott symposium

The Oakeshott symposium on science, religion, and politics in the journal Zygon is now online.    In this issue there is also a symposium on Owen Flanagan’s latest book  The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World. I was scheduled to participate in this symposium, a symposium that I’d originally suggested, but my computer went…

Adams and Aizawa, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, distributed cognition, embodiment, extended mind, mind body, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, robert rupert

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

I want to give an early plug for Rob Rupert’s forthcoming book Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind. Though I haven’t read the book, I have read pretty much everything else Rob has written. Rob is one of the most serious-minded and one of the most talented philosophers around. Rob doesn’t merely crank out “clever” stuff…

active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, cognition, cognitive science, computational intelligence, consciousness, Evan Thompson, extended mind, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, out of our heads, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, psychology, Putnam, qualia, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, susan hurley

Out of Our Heads

Hot on the heels of Andy Clark’s Supersizing the Mind comes yet another “extended mind” type book with a colorful title Out of Our Heads, the writer Alva Noë. Noë is one of the sharpest guys around – his last book Action in Perception has established itself as a recent classic. Great to see the…

cognitive science, consciousness, extended mind, Leonard Angel, Lynne Rudder Baker, mark rowlands, Matthew Day, religion, teed rockwell, Zygon

Zygon: Extended Mind Symposium

In anticipation of the symposium on the Extended Mind that I’m editing for Zygon, I can now make available the abstracts. Mark Rowlands THE EXTENDED MIND The extended mind is the thesis that some mental – typically cognitive – processes are partly composed of operations performed by cognizing organisms on the world around them. The…

Brian Arthur, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, complexity, connectionism, consciousness, dualism, Edelman, El Farol, emergence, explanation, Fuster, hayek, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, Stephen Smoliar, the "hard" problem, the sensory order

The Other Side of Hayek

Stephen Smoliar has a post today that refers to Hayek’s The Sensory Order. I’m particularly pleased to hear that Smoliar’s sometime-colleague Brian Arthur holds Hayek in high regard. Coming from Arthur, that is high praise indeed. Smoliar also writes: Edelman himself does not appear to have acknowledged Hayek’s work, but this is entirely understandable. I’m pleased to…

Alzheimer's, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Bounds of Cognition, brain damage, Chalmers, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, cyborgs, dementia, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, metaphysics, mind body, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, personal identity, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy on the radio, psychology, robotics, robots, social cognition, Zoe Drayson

Extended Mind: An Introduction

If you’ve ever heard the term “extended mind” and thought it denoted some sort of hocus pocus, then this recording will set you straight. Zoe Drayson of Bristol University has recorded a superb overview of the notion and the ethical implications arising from it. Zoe’s motivation for coming to this multidisciplinary literature had resonance for…