Simon died this day in 2001. Check out these two books – Models of a Man (as with most edited books this is uneven, but there is still much to recommend it) and Herbert A. Simon: The Bounds of Reason in Modern America, an excellent intellectual biography. Speaking of Simon, I have a paper coming out entitled…
“Stigmergy” has finally made it into a mainstream philosophy reference work. It is mentioned in the chapter entitled “Reasoning and Rationality” written by Collin Allen, Peter M. Todd, and Jonathan M. Weinberg. Colin, by the way, is co-authoring a paper for a themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research on stigmergy Marge Doyle and I are editing.
This post from PlayStation “Lifestyle” gamingplaystationStigmergy
This article is really creating a buzz (sorry!!) The idea has some resonance to an aspect of Hayek’s social epistemology (see the article that I just today uploaded). In much the same way that synapses are strengthened while unused linkages weaken and wither away, so too are paths to salient social knowledge strengthened or weakened –…
Here’s an article in this month’s Atlantic. Rejecting the views of classic political philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau that primitive humankind started out as a collection of scattered, unorganized individuals, Fukuyama writes: “Human sociability is not a historical or cultural acquisition, but something hardwired into human nature.” Nowhere is Wilson, who pioneered this view,…
Here’s a co-authored paper by one of the leading complexity theorists Vitorino Ramos.
Love the witty title of Dave Reeves’ blog post.
John Graves shares his worth with Wiki-to-Text and Stigmergy & Wealth of Networks for a Learning2gether session. StigmergySwarm intelligence
Here’s yet another article on the global brain.
Here is a video intended to stigmergically (a) promote wiki-to-speech and (b) using the concept of stigmergy to illustrate the script’s capabilities.
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