Wheeler: Reconstructing the Cognitive World
Here is is the uncorrected proof of my review of Mike Wheeler’s excellent book.
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Plasticizing a “computer brain”
This from today’s Jerusalem Post. What’s particularly interesting is that were a biological computer a real possibility, this would vindicate the extended mind thesis. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of TAU’s faculty of exact sciences and his research assistant Dr. Itay Baruchi were chosen for their innovative work in brain research and their success in creating a memory-…
Journal of Mind and Behavior
I’ve recently become the Associate Reviews Editor of the Journal of Mind and Behavior (JMB). JMB is a well-regarded refereed journal, now in its 27th year, with an impressive subscription base. What I find congenial is that JMB appeals to a multidisciplinary audience, offering a healthy and ecumenical dialogue. Subject areas include: The psychology, philosophy,and sociology of experimentation and…
Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science
A nice review of Maggie Boden’s Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science in American Scientist by Gil Harman.
From Ants to People, an Instinct to Swarm
Some four months ago I commented on how swarm behavior is entering the public consciousness. Well there is an article in yesterday’s the science section of the New York Times that continues this trend. But if you want a really good recent article on swarm intelligence, I would refer you to the paper “The biological principles…
Sleep, Memory and Dreams: A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach
Robert Stickgold from the Center for Sleep and Cognition at the Harvard Medical School here lecturing on sleep, memory consolidation, sleep deprivation, and other relevant disorders from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience (80 minutes). To view click here.
Natural-born Cyborgs
A copy of my review of Andy Clark’s Natural-Born Cyborgs is now available through MindPapers.
Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition
My recent co-authored paper now available to download through MindPapers. The abstract: To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex…
The Outsourced Brain
A journalistic take on what is essentially active externalism or the thesis of the extended mind. David Brooks (yes, THAT David Brooks) implicitly refers to notions of collaborative filtering, swarming, stigmergy, and even memetics. Of course, one suspects that Brooks has only the slighest conceptual inkling of what’s going on. Notions of the extended mind enjoy currency both in academic and popular literature: the ‘‘global…
MindPapers
The best online mind resource just got better. Dave Chalmers, in association with David Bourget, have just launched an upgraded version called MindPapers. The announcement from Chalmers. If ever there was a project that meets the needs of a community, it is this. Chalmers has done us an immense service.
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