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Friedrich Hayek

Born on this day in 1899

Economics, embodied cognition, embodiment, Frédéric Basso, multi-agent modeling, neuroeconomics, neuroscience, Olivier Oullier, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social networking, sociocognition

Embodied economics

We know that extended mind discussion is entering unlikley quarters. The same it seems is happening with embodiment. Check out this recent paper “Embodied economics: how bodily information shapes the social coordination dynamics of decision-making” by Olivier Oullier and Frederic Basso. To date, experiments in economics are restricted to situations in which individuals are not influenced by the physical…

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Consciousness, plasticity, and connectomics: the role of intersubjectivity in human cognition

Check out this just published paper by Micah Allen and Gary Williams in the open access journal Frontiers in Psychology. Consciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations. In contrast to this false dichotomy, we propose a new view of consciousness as an interactive,…

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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.

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Mind in Life

I’ve just completed reading Evan Thompson’s Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind, a work which I heartily endorse as the best statement yet of the enactivist theory of mind. I especially like his taking on the philosopher’s zombie and his chapter on Empathy and Enculturation. Last, but by no means least,…

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The Phenomenal Qualities Project

I want to bring your attention to The Phenomenal Qualities Project. With a Whose Who of theorists involved, it promises to offer a wonderful forum for ecumenical discussion: Objectives: There are four main objectives. To investigate a set of fundamental questions concerning phenomenal qualities – such as the colours, sounds and so on, of which we…