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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.

active externalism, active perception, Adams & Aizawa, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, colin klein, david chalmers, distributed cognition, embodied cognition, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, journal of mind and behavior, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, robert rupert

Klein reviews Rupert

At last Colin Klein’s terrific critical notice of Rob Rupert’s fine-grained critique Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind is now available in the latest issue of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

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…

Alva Noë, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive science, complexity, computation, computational intelligence, computationalism, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Gilbert Ryle, IBM's Watson, intentionality, neurophilosophy, philosophy of mind, robotics, robots, rodney brooks, situated cognition

AI as applied philosophy

Here’s a snappy piece by Alva Noë on man vs. machine. Is the ant smart? Or stupid? Maybe neither. Or, most intriguingly of all, maybe it is both? Is there an experimentum crucis that we might perform to settle a question like this once and for all? No. Intelligence isn’t like that. It isn’t something that…

cognitive science, cognitive systems, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, parity principle, philosophy of mind, Shaun Gallagher

The Socially Extended Mind

Shaun Gallagher known primarily for his work on embodiment and phenomenology is extending (pardon the gratuitous use of this term) his thinking to include the social dimension in a forthcoming talk in Montreal. (Friday, February 18th 2011, from 3 p.m. at UQAM, room DS-1950 – Métro Berri-UQAM, pavillon De Sève). The abstract posted: I argue…

Aaron Mishara, consciousness, hypnagogic hallucinations, Kafka, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, schizophrenia

Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: hypnagogic vs. hyper-reflexive models of disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious states

Here’s a fascinating article via a Prague-based (Charles University) neuroscientist and psychologist correspondent of mine Petr Bob. The article of course presupposes familiarity with Kafka’s writings and diaries. Here’s an excerpt from the article – the full article is freely available: What relevance do the neurobiological studies have to Kafka’s writings? Kafka deliberately scheduled his…

brain, brain science, churchland, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, mirror neurons, neuromania, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phantom limbs, philosophy of mind, Ramachandran, raymond tallis, synesthesia

Tallis Reviews Ramachandran’s Latest

Via Pete Mandik at Brain Hammer here is a rather snippy review by Raymond Tallis in the WSJ on V. S. Ramachandran’s latest which just yesterday I was leafing through. Is this the opening salvo of a slanging match akin to the APA Eastern Division meeting a few years back with Dennett vs. Bennett and Hacker? The…

Amygdala, Bradford Dickerson, brain, brain scans, brain science, Christopher Wright, cognition, cognitive science, complex adaptive systems, Kevin Bickart, Lisa Feldman Barrett, network theory, networks, neurobiology, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, Rebecca Dautoff, situated cognition, social cognition, social networking, sociocognition

Amygdala volume and social network size in humans

Not a deep surprise but still nice to see some empirical work coming through. Check out this brief report just published online in Nature Neuroscience. The upshot: participants with larger amygdalas typically had more people in their social lives and maintained more complex relationships.