Category Archive Browsing Category: stigmergy

In its most generic formulation, stigmergy (an optimization technique) is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment.

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active externalism, active perception, anti-representationalist, artificial intelligence, Brian Dupuis, bricks to brains, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, computational intelligence, computer simulations, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, cybernetics, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, extended mind, feedback, lego, Michael Dawson, Michael Wilson, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, robotics, robots, situated cognition, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Embodiment, Stigmergy, and Swarm Intelligence

Here is a chapter from a book by Michael Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (all of the Biological Computation Project, University of Alberta) that has just come my way and is entitled From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots. In fact, all the chapters in draft are freely available to be downloaded…

akamai, data visualization, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, edge platform, internet, internet traffic, network theory, optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, streaming

Visualizing the internet: Akamai’s network traffic

Check out Akamai‘s data visualizations for the internet traffic it handles. Though pretty cool seeing this in their Cambridge control room when I visited, I was told it was more for show than anything else. Check out their online vizualizations page. Also, do check out their EdgePlatform blurb, a superb example of distributed computing.

amazon, cognitive science, collaborative filtering, consciousness, Dialogue on Consciousness, philosophy of mind, psychology, qualia, recommendation algorithm, robert howell, stigmergic, stigmergy, torin alter

A Dialogue on Consciousness/Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm

Thanks to Amazon’s Recommendation Algorithm I chanced upon this book. I haven’t read it yet but it promises that it would provide a light (though hardly condescending) interlude between other drier and more technical works and the more stilted fictional attempts on which to hang the issues. And any work that makes philosophical approaches to…

ants, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Mark Moffett, national geographic, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Adventures among Ants

As some of you will know, I have posts on ants from time to time. The study of ants has a great deal of relevance to the computational intelligence community. I want to trail the forthcoming book by National Geographic photographer extraordinaire and entomologist Mark Moffett. See the book’s dedicated website.

artificial intelligence, austrian economics, behaviorism, brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, cybernetics, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, Enacted, enactivism, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, functionalism, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, hayek machine, hermeneutics, Inevitability Thesis, intentionality, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, Mass Collaboration, metaphysics, mind body, networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, rationality, representationalism, Road to Serfdom, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre

My published article is now available from here. Check out the full table of contents for this volume.

Andries Engelbrecht, artificial intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Jim Kennedy, networks, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Check out the Editorial (and of course the full issue) for the special issue on Particle Swarm Optimization from the new journal Swarm Intelligence. This issue is edited by two of the most prominent luminaries in the field – Andries Engelbrecht and Jim Kennedy. The former is the author of Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence; the latter,…

advances in austrian econmics, austrian economics, Bill Butos, brain science, bruce caldwell, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, connectionism, consciousness, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, Inevitability Thesis, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, liberalism, mind body, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, rationality, reason, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, socialism, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergy, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order

Here are the publisher’s details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper “Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre“