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…
True to the spirit of stigmergy I was pleased to learn of a wiki dedicated to all things stigmergical – StigmergyLive.
Here is an interview with Hayek by John O’Sullivan (yes, the John O’Sullivan of O’Sullivan’s First Law.) Some time ago I posted a rather poor quality version of it – this one seems OK. This version I found via The Austrian Economists blog.
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…
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…
Oops, forgot to publish this two days ago!
Ray Kurzweil’s article from last year’s Scientific American special on robotics is reprinted again here.
Here’s an introduction to swarm intelligence featuring Christian Jacob – one a podcast from CBC Radio 1; the other a video from the Discovery Channel. Another string to Jacob’s bow is his swarm artwork.
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.
Here is a lovely practical (and little known) illustration of the power and nimbleness distributed knowledge and cognition. Here’s Steve Horwitz telling the story. Please, would those harboring a fashionable indignation about Walmart desist from writing to me. The point is not about the substance of their business, but the logistics of their business and management…
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