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Res cogitans extensa: A Philosophical Defense of the Extended Mind Thesis

Look out for Georg Theiner’s book (publisher, Peter Lang) that is about to hit the shelves. I’m reproducing the cover blurb from the preprint he so kindly sent me. Georg has already done some good work for an Extended Mind project and I’m looking forward to his contribution to the stigmergy issue. Abstract for Res cogitans…

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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.

ants, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, neuron, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Swarm Cognition

Check out the latest themed issue of Swarm Intelligence. Here is the freely available introduction. Nice to see the term “cognition” used since I have been using the term in this regard for a few years.

4E, active externalism, Adams & Aizawa, amanda barnier, Andy Clark, Ben Jeffares, Celia Harris, cognitive science, cognitive systems, david chalmers, David Simpson, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Fred Adams, john sutton, Karola Stotz, Ken Aizawa, Kim Sterelny, neurophilosophy, Paul Keil, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, richard menary, situated cognition, social cognition

Extended Mind – Bumper Issue

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences has published a bumper themed issue devoted to EM as well as other related theses, now collectively known as 4E. There is a “whose who” of contributors including the old firm Adams and Aizawa, Barnier, Sutton, Menary, Sterelny, Harris and others. This promises to be a super “must read” collection. Congrats…

complex adaptive systems, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Janet Marsden, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm intelligence

Determining the Role of Geospatial Technologies For Stigmergic Coordination in Situation Management: Implications of the Wireless Grid

Here’s a nice poster from Janet Marsden at Syracuse: Abstract — Geospatial technologies in conjunction with wireless grids will offer a context for locating and coordinating team activities in such a way that the nature of each team member’s effort may be known and understood by other members. This constructed group knowledge enables teams to respond to unforeseen and emergent contingencies…

collective intentionality, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, hayek, network theory, networks, neuron, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

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…

Christian List, disagreement, distributed knowledge, episteme, epistemology, formal epistemology, game theory, Horacio Arló-Costa, Judgment Aggregation, multi-agent modeling, network theory, networks, social connectionism, social networking, testimony

EPISTEME 2011

The 2011 EPISTEME conference will focus on the intersection of formal and social epistemology. The use of formal models in social epistemology is not a new development. Many philosophers have modeled concepts and ideas in social epistemology by using formal tools of various types (e.g., game theory, Bayesian decision theory, the theory of judgment aggregation,…