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Francisco Varela: Late Interview

I chanced upon this video of Francisco Varela, clearly his illness at an advanced stage. I’m not a Spanish speaker so the substance of the video is lost on me. If you don’t know who FV is, here is an obituary by one of his closest friends and collaborators, the very excellent Evan Thompson. Running the video’s…

Autopoiesis, computer science, consciousness, embodied cognition, embodiment, enaction, enactivism, externalism, francesco varela, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science

Remembering Varela

Four articles (and more) of interest to theorists interested in enaction: 1. Tom Froese’s new article in Adaptive Behavior: Critics of the paradigm of enaction have long argued that enactive principles will be unable to account for the traditional domain of orthodox cognitive science, namely “higher-level” cognition and specifically human cognition. Moreover, even many of the…

behaviorism, brain, brain reading, brain science, Chiara Chelini, Chor-Yung Cheung, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complex adaptive systems, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, don ross, dualism, edward feser, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, epistemology, erol basar, evolutionary psychology, folk psychology, francesco varela, friedrich hayek, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, ghost in the machine, Giandomenica Becchio, Gilbert Ryle, Gloria Zúñiga y Postigo, group cognition, hayek, individualism, James wible, Jan Willem Lindemans, joaquin fuster, joshua rust, knowing how knowing that, liberalism, mirror neurons, network theory, networks, neural correlates, neural networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophical psychology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, physicalism, Popper, quantum brain, reductionism, representationalism, self-referentiality, self-synchronizing systems, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic cognition, the "easy" problems, the "hard" problem, the sensory order, Thierry Aimar, Troy Camplin, walter weimer

Trailing Hayek in Mind

Here is the table of contents for my forthcoming (in press) edited volume focusing on The Sensory Order – this is the first salvo of shameless promotion. CONTENTS “SOCIALIZING” THE MIND AND “COGNITIVIZING” SOCIALITY Leslie Marsh “MARGINAL MEN”: WEIMER ON HAYEK Walter Weimer PART I: NEUROSCIENCE HAYEK IN TODAY’S COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE Joaquín Fuster THE NON-CARTESIAN…

active externalism, active perception, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Eleanor Rosch, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, ezequiel di paolo, francesco varela, Michael Wheeler, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, robotics, Shaun Gallagher, Sherrilyn Roush, situated cognition, The Embodied Mind

The Embodied Mind: 20 years on

Commemorating a landmark book The Future of the Embodied Mind The summer school focuses on cognition in artificial and biological systems from a theoretical perspective that considers embodiment, situatedness, and action-relatedness as key elements in understanding and implementing cognitive systems. The school will be held in San Sebastián, Spain 5th – 9th September 2011 The school will…

artificial intelligence, biology, cognition, cybernetics, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, evolutionary biology, francesco varela, Humberto Maturana, Mind in Life, philosophy of mind

Autopoiesis and Cognition

Maturana and Varela’s classic Autopoiesis and Cognition is freely available here (H/T to Paul Loader). What makes a living system a living system? What kind of biological phenomenon is the phenomenon of cognition? These two questions have been frequently considered, but, in this volume, the authors consider them as concrete biological questions. Their analysis is bold and…

biology, cognitive science, complexity, consciousness, dan zahavi, Dennett, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, emergence, empty mind, Enacted, enaction, enactivism, Evan Thompson, francesco varela, Mike Wheeler, Mind in Life, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, Tobias Schlicht

Symposium on Mind in Life

Check out this special issue (Ed. Tobias Schlicht) of Journal of Consciousness Studies devoted to Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life. Participants include Dennett, Grush, Hutto, Siewert, Van Gulick, Wheeler, Zahavi and others. Journal of Consciousness Studies

active externalism, active perception, Adams and Aizawa, Alva Noë, Alzheimer's, Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, cognitive systems research, colin allen, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, consciousness, cyborgs, dan weiskopf, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, duncan prichard, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, Evan Thompson, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, feedback, folk psychology, francesco varela, Fred Adams, Georg Theiner, mark rowlands, Matthew Barker, metaphysics, Nivedita Gangopadhyay, philip robbins, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, robert goldstone, robert rupert, robert wilson, sandy goldberg, Supersizing the Mind, susan hurley, Zoe Drayson

Cognitive Science Research: Extended Mind Themed Issue

Here is my introduction to the themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research. The full collection is now available here.