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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…

Adams & Aizawa, Andy Clark, dan weiskopf, extended mind, externalism, Lawrence Shapiro, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, robert rupert, robert wilson, Shannon Spaulding

Overextended Cognition

Here’s a new paper by Shannon Spaulding. The abstract: Extended cognition is the view that some cognitive processes extend beyond the brain. One prominent strategy of arguing against extended cognition is to offer necessary conditions on cognition and argue that the proposed extended processes fail to satisfy these conditions (Adams and Aizawa, 2008; Rupert, 2010; Weiskopf,…

active externalism, active perception, Alva Noë, Andy Clark, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain reading, brain science, cognition, cognition in the wild, cognitive science, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, Descartes, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, enactivism, extended mind, externalism, John Dylan Haynes, neural correlates, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science

Noë: Does Thinking Happen In The Brain?

Speaking of Andy Clark and Alva Noë in the previous posting, here is Noë writing for NPR set to continue in another installment.

cognitive science, concept of mind, conservatism, corey abel, Descartes, epistemology, knowing how knowing that, oakeshott, philosophy of history, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, ryle, situated cognition, social epistemology

Ryle and Oakeshott

At last here is the book in which my essay “Ryle and Oakeshott on the know-how/know-that distinction” appears, masterly edited by Corey Abel. A draft of the paper can be found here. Don’t get hung up by the use of the word “conservatism” in the collection’s title – Oakeshott’s conservatism bears no resemblance to those…

cognition, cognitive science, computationalism, functionalism, Gualtiero Piccinini, Jerry Fodor, paul churchland, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, physicalism, Putnam

The Mind as Neural Software?

Here is a superb paper by Gualtiero Piccinini that brings much needed clarity to a longstanding issue. A penultimate ms can be found here. As a consequence, when the behavior of ordinary computers is explained by program execution, the program is not just a description. The program is also a (stable state of a) physical component of…

Andy Clark, artificial intelligence, Boundaries of the Mind, Bounds of Cognition, brain science, Chalmers, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, cybernetics, cyborgs, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, global brain, Howard Rheingold, natural-born cyborgs, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, world wide web

Andy Clark Interview

Here is an interview conducted by Howard Rheingold, as he says motivated by Andy’s Natural-Born Cyborgs. Note Andy’s reference to stigmergic (swarm) behavior though he doesn’t actually use the term. (Via David Livingstone Smith and Mirko Farina).